giving way

Example Sentences

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At the moment of its commercial death, VHS was giving way to the advent of a “new flesh” for home viewing: DVD.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 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

I can still conjure it: the heated seat warming my back, the hot chocolate coating my throat, the cinnamon strudel giving way under my teeth.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

The market euphoria over AI that propelled stocks to new highs over the past three years is now giving way to fears about how the technology might ripple across the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

It had been wrought to look like blue-green scales, giving way to a shimmering chiffon fan.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo