Sentence Examples

1. Even so, the realm was beginning to buckle under the pressure, the cracks becoming more apparent each day.
2. My knee threatened to buckle when I put weight on it, but it held and I was limping across the sidewalk as the first horns blared behind us.
3. It had to be assumed that he would buckle equally as easily if asked any searching questions by his master or Prentice.
4. Having, as I thought, sufficiently collected my ideas, I now, with great caution and deliberation, put my hands behind my back, and unfastened the large iron buckle which belonged to the waistband of my inexpressibles.
5. My knees buckle at the intensity, but the hand on my throat is immobile.
6. Then the door opens and in walks Richard and my legs buckle and I have to cling to the counter hoping no one has noticed.
7. This buckle had three teeth, which, being somewhat rusty, turned with great difficulty on their axis.
8. Suspended by blue ribbons to the end of this fantastic machine, there hung, by way of car, an enormous drab beaver hat, with a brim superlatively broad, and a hemispherical crown with a black band and a silver buckle.
9. As I try to stand straight, I feel my knees buckle.
10. She reached for his belt buckle, and he inhaled sharply when her clever fingers yanked it off him.