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Example sentences for: buckle

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This comes up in Once and Again when Eli starts failing two subjects at school because Rick doesn't make the teen-ager buckle down on the nights he sleeps at Rick's house.
Our eyes will focus not on velocity but on volatility, on de Kooning's ability to make his images wriggle and buckle, never quite settling into the seat belt of a single compositional scheme.
The Guardian of London, apparently taking its cue from the New York Times , led Monday with a claim that President Clinton had been misled by intelligence reports that President Milosevic "would buckle at the first show of high-tech military might."
Oh, and definitely buckle your seat belt.
He may have thought that some countries would be afraid of his bluster and intimidation, they would withdraw the use of their bases or buckle under his intimidation.