buckle
Example Sentences
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The engineers worried the truck’s open front end might bend or buckle under a process in which the vehicle body is readied for painting.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
Yet that buffer — a crucial way to meet global oil demand so far — could start to buckle as soon as early June, according to strategists at J.P.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
She warned her fellow librarians not to buckle to outside pressures.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
The strain causes the surface to buckle and crack, allowing magma from deep within Earth to rise upward.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
“This belt buckle is authentic iron from a forge in seventeenth-century London. What about you, Tess, what do you think?” he said, looking to my right.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Vocabulary lists containing buckle
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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The ACT Reading Test: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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