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Example sentences from the Web for bucklingSome days, she felt as though glaciers were buckling around her and a crevasse yawned beneath her. Breaking Mount Everest’s Glass Ceiling|Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman|March 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST As the war in Syria enters its third year, aid groups are buckling under the mounting need for food and medicine. Syria’s Israeli Guardian Angel|Itay Hod|January 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST Even though PLO diplomats have a history of buckling under pressure at the UN, they are less likely to back down now. The PA's Pitiable Strategy|George Hale|July 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST Buckling down to tie-up loose ends is key to lightening your mental load. The Stars Predict Your Week|Starsky + Cox|October 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST
And yet, a decade into a new century, this old architecture is buckling under the weight of new threats. Obama's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech|Barack Obama|December 10, 2009|DAILY BEAST There was a quick saddling of horses and buckling on of belts. Following the Flag|Charles Carleton Coffin I always wanted some element of play in my work; buckling down to any sort of routine always galled me, and does yet. Our Friend John Burroughs|Clara Barrus In a minute every one was on deck busily employed in casting loose the guns, in priming pistols, and buckling on cutlasses. The Cruise of the Frolic|W.H.G. Kingston When a buckling plate or plate with bulged active material breaks through the separator, Fig. 214. The Automobile Storage Battery|O. A. Witte This causes expansion and consequent distortion and buckling. The Automobile Storage Battery|O. A. Witte
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nounanother name for a bloater Word Origin for bucklingC20: from German Bückling Words nearby bucklingbuckler fern, buckle under, buckle up, Buckley, Buckley's chance, buckling, buckminsterfullerene, buck moth, Buckner, bucko, buck passer Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to bucklingtwist, fold, bend, crumple, cave in, bulge, collapse, distort, yield |