Example sentences for: bucking

How can you use “bucking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hard to believe how many people have been courageously bucking fashion in the past 30 days alone!

  • But recently I have noticed that many of my wealthier acquaintances, people who live in tonier suburbs like Potomac, Md., or Darien, Conn., are bucking the trend toward smaller families.

  • A Wall Street Journal front-page feature notes a way corporate America is bucking the general trend against affirmative action: The business group that certifies minority ownership of corporations is likely to drop its definition from 51 percent ownership by minority group members to 20 percent.

  • The 57-year-old portraitist wins acclaim for bucking trendy postwar art movements.

  • Possible meaning: "Mark our words, Broaddrick's bucking for a book contract."


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