How to Use record-breaking in a Sentence

record-breaking

adjective
  • The forecast comes after a record-breaking year for the S&P 500.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Elizabeth, who died at the age of 96, sat on the throne for a record-breaking 70 years.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 May 2023
  • The latest run of shows will mark the final leg of Swift’s record-breaking Eras tour.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
  • That marks a 3% increase over last year’s record-breaking game on CBS and Paramount+.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 11 Feb. 2025
  • In April, a teenager in Ohio caught a record-breaking 101-pound blue catfish and set a state record.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 29 May 2024
  • It's been a record-breaking year for women's sports — and women's sports still has a long way to go.
    — Alex Apatoff, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Dion presented the Album of the Year award, which Swift won for a record-breaking fourth time.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The first, finished in the same black on green as the record-breaking car, goes to Jeff Miller of California.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Dubai has been at the forefront of this regional swell in tourism with a record-breaking 2023.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • November had been record-breaking months for the past two years.
    — Lily Templeton, WWD, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Approval for Elon Musk’s record-breaking pay package is the norm.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 17 June 2024
  • Texas reached the other this summer, as record-breaking heat enveloped the South.
    — Patrick George, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Bey’s record-breaking concert tour is hitting the big screen.
    — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Even if Snyder is counting his cash from a record-breaking deal.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Paris Olympics ended on a record-breaking high note for female athletes.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2024
  • So far, 2023 has been a record-breaking year for venture capital—but not in a good way.
    — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 3 May 2023
  • In fact, 2024’s average has grown about two months from last year’s record-breaking age.
    — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 23 May 2024
  • The Angels will be paying two-way star Shohei Ohtani a record-breaking $65 million salary this year.
    — David Faris, The Week, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Even in an era of record-breaking species loss, the wild corners of the Earth may still harbor creatures long feared extinct.
    — Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The record-breaking show, which is based on the video game series of the same name, has already been renewed for a second season.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Meta agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine and to submit to new oversight by the commission.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 May 2023
  • The record-breaking attempts could start as early as next fall, with the Newport-Bermuda race.
    — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Dew point approached 80 degrees Friday, which is the record-breaking level for the area.
    — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 20 June 2023
  • For the most important items to come for Ovechkin, such as the record-breaking puck and stick, the final resting spot has not been confirmed yet.
    — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Kelce has also joined Swift onstage at her record-breaking Eras tour.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Still, venture capital deals have been few and far between since the record-breaking year of 2021.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
  • Air travel will be bustling this Thanksgiving in a record-breaking year so far.
    — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The storm, given the name Ciarán, pummeled the French Atlantic coast with record-breaking winds and left at least one person dead.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Editor's note: Read the latest on Sen. Cory Booker's record-breaking speech here.
    — Avery Lotz, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Should baseball fans now expect hitting metrics to skyrocket, and the Yankees to continue on their current pace and finish with a record-breaking 810 home runs as a club?
    — Tyler Small, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025

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