giving way

Example Sentences

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The Vegas of cheap rooms, 24-hour buffets and slot machines is giving way to pricey concerts, luxury suites and Formula One racing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026

Buckhannon itself has changed beyond recognition over the decades, its family farms giving way to lumber mills, then coal mining, then strip and mountaintop mining, and now to chain stores and tourism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The city is ever-evolving, the past giving way to the future, birthing new guises and blurring the old.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

I can still conjure it: the heated seat warming my back, the hot chocolate coating my throat, the cinnamon strudel giving way under my teeth.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

At last the trees thinned, giving way to a sweep of meadow, and they stepped out of the wood into sunlight.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell