giving way

Example Sentences

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Buckhannon itself has changed beyond recognition over the decades, its family farms giving way to lumber mills, then coal mining, then strip and mountaintop mining, and now to chain stores and tourism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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

It’s as if a long-disused history book’s pages have finally been opened, dust giving way to color and purpose.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Upriver the land was more rugged, die dense forest giving way to a series of bare stony hills that rose high and wild to the north and west.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin