Sentence examples for the snapping point from inspiring English sources

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

He broke three runs of at least 10 yards, stretching the Jets' defense almost to the snapping point.

But its presence in an exhibition stretches the art world's studied position of moral ambivalence to the snapping point.

The snapping point came when she was called to do jury service, on an attempted murder case.

Now, nobody expects this sort of movie to be a model of logic, but Mr. Cohen asks us to stretch our willingness to believe to the snapping point.

I find it stretches the limits of credibility to the snapping point to read that he's written 4,224,407 book reviews for The Times.

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".

They try a little too hard, push the limits beyond snapping point, stress-test their own games to destruction.

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.

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.

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.