Sentence examples for could have buckled from inspiring English sources

Southampton could have buckled.

"We could have buckled after their early goal but we got back into it," Grayson said.

Personally I think it could have gone either way, the players could have buckled under the pressure as easily as they have been inspired by it.

Gee retired 9 of the next 10 Padres he faced before the fifth inning, when he could have buckled, with runners on first and second and no one out.

"It was the type of game where possibly we could have buckled under not playing brilliantly and maybe made mistakes.

We could have buckled at 3-1 down against quality opposition but we kept going and got a terrific ending to the game.

"You could have buckling of the structure of the ship," Chris Cleary, of the Engineering Logistics Center at the Coast Guard, said he recalls pointing out.

The highly simplified calculations have not been carried beyond that point, but presumably the columns themselves could then have buckled under the tremendous weight they carried.

Though pleasant, conditions meant anyone who had chosen to spend the day wandering through the ice field had to be even more careful than usual – the area was filled with hidden traps where the ice or snow had softened and could easily have buckled under the pressure of a human foot.

He is also concerned that the freshman point guard Bria Hartley and the freshman center Stefanie Dolson could buckle under the weight of expectation, the way barns have buckled under the weight of snow this winter.

Roof beams have buckled and the windows are gone.