giving way

Example Sentences

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It has also led pollsters to question long-standing assumptions about the president’s floor of support, wondering whether it is at risk of giving way.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

The top shatters just slightly under a knife, giving way to a plush, chocolate-saturated center streaked with melted pockets.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 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

Bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny was powerful as Kurwenal, his cocky sarcasm of Act 1 giving way to the caretaker’s forced optimism in Act 3.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Today he rode In my father’s car, His paws on the dash As he looked around At the road giving way To farms and countryside.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto