giving way

Example Sentences

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The top shatters just slightly under a knife, giving way to a plush, chocolate-saturated center streaked with melted pockets.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026

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

Hilal says that both metals are moving in a way similar to how they moved earlier this year—a positive trend before giving way to a quick collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 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

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