buckle under
Example Sentences
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's government presents its first budget on Tuesday, a spending plan he says will provide "the answer" for an economy starting to buckle under US tariffs.
From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025
The biscuit began to buckle under the weight of its own layers, the folds getting too heavy, too thin.
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2025
Mbappe was always too intelligent, too talented and too precocious to fail, or buckle under the pressure, at Real Madrid.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2025
He was widely revered not just as a war hero who refused to buckle under torture but also someone whose go-it-alone attitude reflected the state’s broad libertarian streak.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023
She felt her muscles burn, her bones buckle under the pressure.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
