Sentence examples for point of quitting from inspiring English sources

I was on the point of quitting for years".

One-third of Catalonia's police force, the Mossos d'Esquadra, is reportedly on the point of quitting because they were not allowed to support the national police.

He was on the point of quitting when Live at the Apollo star Seann Walsh stepped in – recommending him for jobs and sending work his way until he started making ends meet.

Classmate Sheila, who had lost confidence after a lifetime of skiing and had reached the point of quitting for good, was now enjoying it more than she had done in years.

The first years after my Ph.D. were rocky; I almost got to a point of quitting before I eventually found a "real job".

The point of quitting a job to travel around the world is also not to do nothing; it's to do something else.

In 1977, Kennedy left to become the general manager of the Chicago Cubs, and shortly afterward he traded for Boras, who by that point was thinking of quitting.

‡The cutoff point for years of quitting smoking was based on the median in controls (27 years).

The outcome of quitting (point prevalence) was measured at 3, 6 and 12 months, with repeated point prevalence measures reported at 6 and 12 months.

The editors, he said, leaned on him for rewrite after rewrite of the article, to the point that he thought of quitting.

But he got interested in basketball, where he was a fast-dribbling point guard, and thought of quitting the football team entirely.