buckling

Example Sentences

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The Stanley FatMax hit the shelves with a blade a quarter-inch wider than the norm, allowing it to extend for 10 feet or more without buckling.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

The warnings come with Asia buckling under the strain of an energy supply crunch and fears over shortages of fertiliser and other industrial and agricultural components which pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

As subscriber growth slows, Big Streaming is buckling down on revenue maximization and pulling back on its free-spending ways.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

Dr Vicky Price, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said winter viruses were placing further strain on an "already buckling system".

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

At the end of the hallway was a room full of people, some of them sitting on benches and pulling on knee-high rubber boots, some struggling into their slickers, some buckling on tool belts.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau