Sentence examples for stretched to snapping point from inspiring English sources

His uncanny physical pliancy, meanwhile, becomes the expression of a spirit stretched to snapping point.

But combine it with a surge in demand in a sector already stretched to snapping point and the consequences will be nothing short of disastrous.

O'Brien is less positive in his appraisal of the scriptwriting, asserting that plots "tended towards the formulaic" and were sometimes "stretched to snapping point" by the extended running time.

The cricket writer Martin Williamson suggests that "in an era where gentlemen played by the rules, Fender was adroit at stretching the Laws to snapping point".

The ceiling of performance continues to be stretched to the snapping point.

It would also stretch the defence guarantee to snapping point and put the necessary ratification of new members by national parliaments in jeopardy for all.

To Birmingham now, and I know, I know: we are stretching the limits of the headline "London Rental Opportunity of the Week" thin like elastic, thin to snapping point, stretching it so it doesn't even make sense any more; the words are signifiers for signs that are 125 miles north-west.

The issue was compounded at Notaro's show, because she's a comic who wilfully stretches the audience's patience to snapping point, elongating each section of her show with endless pauses and repetitions.

With a wealth of cheap hydroelectric power readily available, Norwegians heat their homes with electricity, and in the cold winter months the grid is stretched to the snapping point.

Stretched to the snapping point by mortgage payments on two houses, the Guesses finally unloaded their place in May for $20,000 less than they paid for it.

I realize that "Fair and Balanced" is not meant to be taken literally — it's a taunt, not a creed — but doesn't Beck stretch it nearly to the snapping point?