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Example sentences for: buckle

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The story is accompanied by a box of tips, including: always buckle up (hitting that partition with your head is a leading cause of passenger injuries) and always request a receipt (most receipts give the cab's number).
The rest of us can live on the edge until the first red light--when we can buckle up in obscene leisure.
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."
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.
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.