buckling
Example Sentences
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The horses’ blinders hung on a wooden wall that was turning black and buckling from the fire.
From Literature
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As subscriber growth slows, Big Streaming is buckling down on revenue maximization and pulling back on its free-spending ways.
From MarketWatch
Dr Vicky Price, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said winter viruses were placing further strain on an "already buckling system".
From BBC
Chinese food-delivery giant Meituan swung into the red for the first time in nearly three years, buckling under the costs of a brutal price war.
Treasurys sparked alarm that the bond market might finally be buckling under the pressure of outsize U.S. borrowing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.