Sentence examples for bucked from inspiring English sources
The word "bucked" is an appropriate and commonly used term in written English
It is usually used to describe a situation in which someone performs an action with more energy or enthusiasm than a normal level. For example, "He really bucked up and gave a great speech!"
Bristol bucked the trend and voted in favour of an elected mayor.
Only Missouri bucked the trend – it lethally injected 10 prisoners compared with just two the previous year, as it forged ahead with an aggressive new drive to carry out executions at a rate of almost one a month.
Related: Climate-sceptic US senator given funds by BP political action committee Among the potential candidates expected to announce their intentions beginning in an April wave, only Kentucky senator Rand Paul and South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham have bucked their party by acknowledging that climate change is real.
A number of local authorities bucked the national trend, including schools with a high proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
"He went to the back and bucked around and squirted blood all over my van".
A litany of bad economic news sent leading shares lower once more, but engineering group Amec bucked the trend after a positive update.
By making this simple, and low budget, alteration to the images that young women see when they're surfing for careers after finishing school, Sellafield has bucked the trend in a big way.
One political event in recent times has bucked the trend - the Scottish independence referendum.
But some member nations bucked the trend in the Euro elections and registered a surge towards leftwing candidates.
A closely watched report on the eurozone's manufacturers showed that most enjoyed continued growth in April, but that Greece and France bucked the trend with factories cutting jobs as production fell.
Cuban policies have bucked the world trend.
