Examples of flash point in a Sentence

The city became a flash point as political tensions grew. The situation reached a flash point when union leaders urged the workers to protest.

Recent Examples on the Web The case involving undeveloped land near Lost Mountain Park has become a flash point for critics of the cityhood effort. — Brian Eason, ajc, 24 Apr. 2022 Coronavirus policies in schools have been a nationwide flash point throughout the pandemic. — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022 But their disagreement over safe use represented just one flash point in an ongoing debate about how to best help alleviate San Francisco’s opioid crisis. — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2022 Yoon has proposed to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, which has become a flash point for the gender war. — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022 Amid this heightened tension, the drone strike in particular became a flash point for the Kremlin. — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2021 During this latest immigration flash point, White House officials on Tuesday struggled to explain the searing images of border agents treating Haitian migrants harshly and attempting to force them back across the Rio Grande into Mexico. — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021 Closer to home, the Bay Area has been a flash point for anti-Asian incidents, ranging from verbal harassment to deadly violence. — Deepa Fernandes, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2022 But, by then, struggles over exclusionary zoning had become the flash point in civil-rights campaigns to desegregate the suburbs. — Gideon Lewis-kraus, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2022 See More

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