How to Use flash point in a Sentence

flash point

noun
  • The situation reached a flash point when union leaders urged the workers to protest.
  • The city became a flash point as political tensions grew.
  • This year, the island is a flash point once again.
    — Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Big Tech is a flash point now for antitrust across the globe.
    — Eddie Spence, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Tipping remains a flash point for many.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Debates rage over which front line might become the next flash point.
    — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
  • Kashmir is now once again one of the world’s riskiest flash points.
    — Sushant Singh, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2025
  • But more potential flash points loom.
    — Jill Lawless The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 5 Feb. 2026
  • A number of flash points have emerged this week as the two men hit the campaign trail.
    — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 2 June 2023
  • The flash point was the inclusion in Web.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Crimea is not the only flash point between the two countries.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Key West’s cruise business has become a statewide flash point.
    — Fran Golden, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Death is often a flash point for communal anger.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 29 May 2026
  • Housing projects become flash points for who belongs.
    — Ilia Murtazashvili, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
  • As the pandemic drags on, travel has become a flash point for mask rules.
    — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
  • And one of the biggest flash points in this is this trade standoff with China.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 4 May 2025
  • In the first few weeks of the conflict, headlines became a flash point for readers.
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 July 2024
  • Amber Guyger’s case became a flash point for those conflicts and so much more.
    — Mika Brzezinski, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Funerals are also a flash point.
    — Emmet Livingstone, NPR, 24 June 2026
  • The presence of squeegee kids on Baltimore’s streets has have been a flash point for years.
    — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2021
  • One flash point was a video that showed a woman collapsing amid a crowd of protesters.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
  • The area surrounding the offices has been a flash point for protesters for months.
    — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The trawlers have become a flash point in an often emotional debate about the fate of the snow crab.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The flag has now become a flash point of hurt-feelings and hostilities.
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • But there also has been increased shelling on this potential flash point in the east of the country.
    — ABC News, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Food has often become a flash point — for good and ill — in moments of war or global conflict.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The area was a flash point in the fighting, another site of a prolonged and bloody battle in the war.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • In recent weeks, the issue has emerged as a political flash point.
    — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Whether such care is right for minors has become a major flash point in the culture wars across the country.
    — Steve Karnowski, ajc, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Walker’s case is the latest civil rights flash point in Georgia.
    — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2020

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