truckle

Example Sentences

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“A criminal could hide tonnes away and then pass them slowly, truckle by truckle, into supply chains,” says Ben Lambourne of the online retailer Pong Cheese.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024

“It was only where there was this defiance, this refusal to truckle, this distrust of all authority, political or social, that institutions would express human aspirations, not crush them.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2020

We’d got all the right stuff – we had smoked salmon, a stilton in a truckle, and nobody had gone off-piste and innovated.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2019

Now would the assembly truckle to Parliament’s authority?

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

“I don’t truckle, and I hate being patronized as much as you do!” returned Amy indignantly, for the two still jangled when such questions arose.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott