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buckle

verb

To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.

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The word "buckle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to mean fastening something with a buckle, as a noun to refer to the buckle itself, or figuratively to mean weakening or breaking, as in "The team's resolve buckled under pressure." Example sentence: She buckled her seat belt before starting the car.

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There were mint-green pumps, polka-dot kitten heels with ankle straps, pointy-toed brown Dries Van Noten rip-offs and, my favourite, a red and white candy-striped pair with a buckle.

Given the domestic pressures on Tsipras not to buckle to the troika, one of those options is now looking likely, for one simple reason: Syriza was elected to end austerity in Greece and will be finished as a political force if he caves in.

The icing on the cake for all the Armani, Prada, Tod's... in the window of a small shop called Borgo Albino sat a pink, slim, ostrich skin belt with diamante buckle.

Cool Hand Luke Synonymous with the bilious but protein diet-friendly scene where its antihero eats 50 hard-boiled eggs to win a bet, Cool Hand Luke stars Paul Newman as a war veteran refusing to buckle to authority in a rural Florida chain-gang prison.

But being Versace, they featured on a jacket with a gold buckle on the shoulder, worn only with a pair of ankle-strapped stilettos.

Yet, as authorities in Sicily buckle under the weight of the influx of migrants, children are being left in overcrowded and decaying emergency shelters for months, with little protection.

But when I won the Costa it became obvious that people were asking 'Where are this bloke's other poems?', so it would have been silly not to buckle down.

He hasn't changed his hairstyle, either, though it is trying to get away from his eyebrows, and he's wearing a cool leather jacket and generally looks ready to swash a buckle or two despite being fully 72 years old.

And this once-in-a-generation team has shown their eagerness to keep gorging on the flesh of NSW for as long as they can before age catches up with them and they have to make that decision all men of a certain age must make: Do I buckle my pants above my gut or below it?

The simpering fop part was played as a simpering fop by one of our most celebrated simpering fop actors, complete with straw-coloured wig and buckle shoes.

Which is why they require the Greens to buckle under the pressure and bring the government down.

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