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:

  • Other prominent stories in the British press included Thursday's $90 million record-breaking sale at Christie's in London of a famous art collection looted by the Nazis from the Austrian Rothschilds in 1938 and recently restored to their American heirs, and the news that fox hunting is almost certain to be abolished in Britain now that Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he will support legislation against it.

  • So there is nothing particularly outrageous in principle about the record-breaking offer that has just induced the Harvard economist to move to Columbia University.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.


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