Sentence examples for buckle beneath from inspiring English sources

As she soon discovered, turnover in the low-wage world is so fast that companies simply use people up - literally working them until their backs give up the ghost or their knees buckle beneath them - and then spit them out.

Sheila and Margaux's friendship becomes so intense it begins to buckle beneath the strain, turning the two BFFs (for a while at least) into enemies in this funny, wry and searingly honest portrait of a young woman making mistakes – and writing excellent, witty emails.

One moment Jonny Brownlee is striding to victory in the final World Triathlon Series race of the season, about to become world champion for the second time; the next his legs buckle beneath him as if punched by an invisible haymaker.

Rotating in the air, Ware landed with all of his weight on his right foot, only to have it buckle beneath him — he had fractured his leg.  .

In some cases the models appear to be buckling beneath the weight of the designs.

The communal spirit was buckling beneath a new emphasis on setting speed records.

Elected peers would also be less free-thinking, less rebellious, their consciences buckling beneath the might of the party whips.

Another Italian, Stefano Sacconi, was in the bathroom about 4.20am when he thought he felt the boat's hull buckling beneath him.

Granderson fouled off two pitches that were out of the strike zone before striking out on a 1-2 curveball that buckled beneath his swing.

And yet, now and then, something new shows through — a glimpse of a dented mind, buckling beneath terrors both immanent and unexplained.

At a gun show in South Carolina on primary day, where tables buckled beneath rifles, pistols, crossbows, machetes and even a spiked club, it was hard to find a single McCain fan.