How to Use break-even in a Sentence

break-even

adjective
  • That puts it within a hair of break-even already.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Understand your costs and your break-even point.
    — Marisa Flores, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Labor merely wants a close to break-even contract.
    — John Dias, CBS News, 9 May 2026
  • That’s why housing market pros use a break-even hurdle of five to seven years.
    — Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And reaching break-even energy is just the first step, Whyte adds.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Last month, Musk announced that Starlink had achieved break-even cash flow.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • For states with higher break-even prices and few non-oil revenues, the group is essential.
    — Wael Mahdi, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Smaller producers come in with a break-even of $66.
    — Matt Randolph, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The problem is, not one of Montreal’s pairs is above break-even through two rounds.
    — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 20 May 2026
  • There is no flying under the radar for the program that had been treading water with break-even records for too long.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2024
  • In 2025, Showcase was cash flow break-even from its theaters.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 June 2026
  • The stakes for marketers have grown along with the budget — and the break-even targets — for studio tentpoles.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Raymond, at 51 percent, was the only forward above break-even.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The financial break-even point is reached only when the artificial tree is reused for at least five years.
    — Ali Besharat, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The financial break-even point is reached only when the artificial tree is reused for at least five years.
    — Ali Besharat, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The economics are more favorable there because of the lower break-even point of drilling costs.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2025
  • That gets you to the 50K to 75K break-even monthly job number.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Farm Zero is close to approaching its break-even point on the first farm, Steinberg said.
    — Jerry Wu, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
  • The dev said the break-even point is about 580 calls/day on the Platinum plan, for example.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2024
  • With many rural customers, DISH’s break-even could go from three years to even five.
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The break-even number is the monthly jobs growth figure needed to keep the unemployment rate steady.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The break-even period on hot spots, previously measured in weeks, is now measured in years.
    — Jacob Russell, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The Golden Knights are only hovering around break-even in xG through three rounds.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 31 May 2026
  • The thought behind the market also is to not necessarily clear a profit but to break-even.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2024
  • The workshop runs on a break-even model, covering only salaries and essentials.
    — Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2025
  • In some cases, a new hire doesn’t reach the productivity break-even point until the 12-week mark.
    — Jeff Stevenson, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
  • Even if tax credits brought that down, a reasonable break-even point would be around $500 million worldwide.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
  • Shares rose 3% in early after-market trading before leveling off to the break-even point.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
  • If homeowners don’t stay in the home long enough, the savings from a lower rate may never outweigh those upfront costs, known as the break-even point.
    — Mike Winters, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
  • That seemed to set up Disney to potentially take a small loss, or struggle to the theatrical break-even point.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026

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