give way
Example Sentences
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"Whenever new mandatory requirements are proposed, it is important to be clear about what might have to give way to make room for them," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
It’s not exactly the kind of metaphor you want to hang an entire film on, lest its relative simplicity give way under the heft of a feature film’s many parts.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Languid piano tunes give way to surging, keening tides of strings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
She doesn't yet know that the inspection determined several columns in her house are compromised and it shouldn't be inhabited because they could give way.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
October 4,1957, was the midnight of the postwar era, and the end of the naive hope that the conflict that was ended by an atomic bomb would give way to an era of global peace.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
