Example sentences for: record-breaking

How can you use “record-breaking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The LAT leads with the Dow's biggest 1-day point gain ever, which is the off-lead at the WP , and is also fronted at USAT and the NYT . USAT gives over three-quarters of its front page to Mark McGwire's record-breaking 62nd home run, a story that also cops mega column-inchage at the LAT and NYT , but which is missing altogether--due to deadline constraints, no doubt--from the front of the first available edition of the WP . McGwire is widely quoted thanking his family, his son, the Cubs, and Sammy Sosa.

  • Although Johnson whiffed McGwire twice on the way to a record-breaking total of 19 strikeouts, McGwire hit what was estimated as the longest home run in at least a decade.

  • The Dow Jones industrial average extended its record-breaking run to nearly 7,400.

  • Just as 1960-63 was the end of the '50s, and 1970-73 was the end of the '60s, we are now a record-breaking 17 years into the present decade, culturally speaking.

  • According to a wry piece in the NYT by Bill Dedman, if you're a baseball fan who's taking a glove to games these days in hopes of catching Sosa's or McGwire's record-breaking home run ball, you might think about taking your tax advisor along too.


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