How to Use Rubicon in a Sentence

Rubicon

noun

• And like all empires, this gang will experience a rise, a heyday, a Rubicon crossing and a fall.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2024-06-21
• Whether literal or metaphoric, there’s a Rubicon that Owen has to cross.
  — James Grebey, TIME, 2024-05-17
• Team Rubicon had been approached in the past for unscripted and documentary projects, but the timing never seemed quite right.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 2023-05-15
• The brand supports Team Rubicon, which helps veterans find their place through disaster relief efforts.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 2023-08-02
• The European Union, which for two decades talked about taking on a military role with very little to show for it, has crossed a Rubicon of its own.
  — Richard Fontaine, The Atlantic, 2022-03-01
• After less than a week, the fleet arrived at the aptly named Marina Rubicon, a popular launching point for Atlantic sailors.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 2024-06-26
• The widespread assumption was that nuclear weapons were weapons unlike any other, and that using them would mean crossing a Rubicon to Armageddon.
  — Jackson Lears, Harper's Magazine, 2023-06-09
• So far this year, Team Rubicon, a disaster response group, has conducted nearly 70 operations across the country.
  — Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-06-07
• The dehumanization of immigrants (or anyone) is a Rubicon that, once crossed, can set in motion the worst of humanitarian disasters.
  — Molly Jong-Fast, Vogue, 2022-09-23
• This Rubicon of sorts — borrowing together — broke new ground, and arguably prevented the collapse of the E.U. into a deeper and longer recession.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 2024-06-07
• Elliott was camping in Rubicon Springs with a group doing trail rehab ahead of an upcoming event dubbed the Jeepers Jamboree when he got lost after going out for a walk, the sheriff's office said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 2024-07-24