How to Use breakneck in a Sentence

breakneck

adjective
  • But the breakneck pace doesn’t seem to bother folks too much.
    — Kate Farnady, WIRED, 23 Jan. 1997
  • Of late, a spate of hip bars and trendy restaurants have popped up at a breakneck pace.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2021
  • This is more of a quest, the breakneck pursuit of more is better.
    — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2018
  • The large team has been rushing cases through at breakneck speed.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Coronavirus time moves at breakneck speed and doesn’t move at all.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The breakneck pace — Dustin will die soon — requires all plans to change.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Over the past few months, it's deployed new satellites at a breakneck pace.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 15 Mar. 2020
  • At this breakneck pace, with this many logistics, flights and rental vans and this and that.
    — Ben Trivett, PEOPLE.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Twitch chat is famous for its emoji flying at breakneck speed across the page.
    — Shannon Liao, CNN, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The story and chase never stop moving, but not at breakneck speed.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Technicians have worked at breakneck pace to make repairs, but cannot keep up.
    — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Slow as that may seem, in Everglades time, that’s breakneck speed.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 8 Mar. 2018
  • All signs pointed to a shootout, and the Camels did their part to keep the breakneck pace going.
    — Adam Turer, Cincinnati.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • That said, don’t just hop on the tread and amp up the speed to a breakneck pace while carrying a super heavy load.
    — Health.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The storm before it, named Aletta, also spun up and then down at breakneck speed.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 13 June 2018
  • Lelchuk sets the story over the course of seven days and its breakneck pace can at times feel overwhelming.
    — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Williams keeps the work moving at a breakneck pace, never letting much time pass between the next joke.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 14 May 2018
  • Such warnings were at a fever pitch in July, as the group’s rally reached breakneck pace.
    — Lu Wang, Bloomberg.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The breakneck speed of the last movement was not fully convincing.
    — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Ish Smith, who spent the past three seasons with the Pistons, plays the game at a breakneck pace.
    — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The events of the last few years took what was already happening and propelled it forward at a breakneck pace.
    — Bradley Jacobs, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The South is growing at a breakneck pace, but Alabama is just along for the ride.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 5 Jan. 2020
  • The game began at breakneck pace, with neither side wiling to sit on their laurels in the early stages of the match.
    — SI.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • The story moves at breakneck pace, cramming a lot of Dickens’ plot and ideas into two hours.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The breakneck pace of celebrity arrivals on the Met Gala red carpet will do things to you.
    — Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 2 May 2022
  • First, the steer took a breakneck tour of Flatbush and South Park Slope.
    — Longreads, 17 May 2018
  • Playing at a breakneck pace, Burke opened a 26-7 lead through six minutes.
    — Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2020
  • That’s the kind of breakneck speed with which the Aggies want to play offense in 2021.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Any awkwardness is erased by the cutthroat nature and breakneck pace of TV.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The first half of the season was so slow, then the second half of the season moved at a breakneck pace rushing toward tonight’s ending.
    — Roxane Gay, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2017

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