How to Use to the point in a Sentence

to the point

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• The level of football around the world has grown to the point where there are very few truly weak teams.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 30 June 2026
• Don't scrub a mesh filter too hard, which can tear or warp it to the point that the filter ends up needing replacing.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
• The aim in the cage is to knock the other guy’s block off, and then to pile on to the point of submission with a flurry of punches.
  — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
• Significant rain can leave open trash cans soggy and soak any outdoor debris to the point of decay.
  — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 8 July 2026
• Meaning, connecting deeply with the audience to the point of a congenial fracture of time and space.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 1 July 2026
• The women alleged they were often choked by the brothers, sometimes to the point of passing out, before being raped.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 22 July 2026
• Ethan Roberts’ right forearm inflammation has improved to the point of throwing a bullpen Wednesday.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2026
• No amount of time-traveling expeditions to reboot or create alternate timelines can save it now, because it's been done to the point of overkill.
  — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 3 July 2026
• Vanicek seems more interested in slathering on the gore, to the point where the movie starts to seem less like a full-bodied story than a string of hyper-violent set pieces.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026
• The search was hampered by the fact that Horan’s gravestone, like many at Blake Street, had eroded to the point that it could no longer be identified.
  — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026
• Japan’s players, initially reverential to the point of deference in Zico’s presence, came out of their shells.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 29 June 2026
• Occhicone has difficulties hearing, seeing, and walking, to the point that guards have to help him in and out of the shower and up and down stairs, according to court records filed by his lawyers.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 24 July 2026
• The talks between the Red Sox and Angels regarding Neto last winter did not progress to the point of exchanging names.
  — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 23 July 2026
• Many of these tracks barely touch two minutes, sometimes not even 90 seconds, and with such a profusion of directions, certain ideas feel fleeting to the point of frustration.
  — Oba Awolowo, Pitchfork, 3 July 2026
• Despite this effort, symptoms escalated to the point of eight hospitalizations and an ICU stay in four months.
  — Shannon Dingey, Health, 1 July 2026
• Roberts said Smith has not been able to accelerate his rehabilitation to the point of doing baseball activities.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
• But the 64-year-old star, now back in New York City with her one-woman show, Common Knowledge, gets right to the point—as always.
  — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 26 July 2026
• On safety, Anthropic is also toeing a line between being safe, but not being too cautious, to the point of refusing legitimate safety work.
  — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 24 July 2026
• Even if a court reverses the decision, the patient’s condition may have worsened to the point where the treatment is no longer clinically indicated or as effective.
  — Miranda Yaver, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
• Everyone on the farm, humans and animals alike, are feeling the heat this summer, to the point Ritter considered canceling petting zoo visits this weekend.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
• This brings us to the point that while the project focused on coffee grounds, the technology can be applied to a wide range of high-moisture organic waste, including food waste, agricultural residues, and even sewage sludge.
  — New Atlas, 1 July 2026
• In other words, the department rescinded its directive only after Anthropic’s models were hobbled to the point that many benign queries now trigger the guardrails.
  — João Marinotti, The Conversation, 21 July 2026
• Its reporting angered not only other Arab leaders, sometimes to the point of diplomatic rupture, but also riled Washington.
  — Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
• The Kings landed Erik Haula, which puts their center depth in an extremely challenging place (to the point that Adrian Kempe may have to slide in to save the day).
  — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 16 July 2026
• What Spain did was automate the system to the point where its players seemed like robots who had been following the same playbook for 90 years, while France was reduced to a second-rate team.
  — Juan Claudio Matossian, Vanity Fair, 19 July 2026
• Make Participation Effortless Reduce friction to the point where using it feels like less effort than ignoring it.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• If the situation has not escalated to the point of danger and someone contacts Animal Control, an officer will be sent out to investigate.
  — Eva Flowe july 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
• But Veronica Burton and Kayla Thornton both slid into the paint as well, not doubling to the point of leaving their shooters open, but creating congestion.
  — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 20 July 2026
• The initiative was put together quickly, to the point where Wright learned of its existence on social media after finishing batting practice while on the road in Quebec City.
  — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 7 July 2026
• The game was beset with performance issues, to the point where even high-end gaming PCs were struggling to achieve decent frame rates and about the only way to make the game playable was to rely on super-powerful cloud gaming rigs.
  — Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026