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How to use the word Buckle in a Sentence?

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If it wasn’t for the 5-year-old undoing the buckle of the 1-year-old’s car seat, he wouldn’t be with us today, she’ll probably not know for a few years.

– Michael Read

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She really loves her little buckle bar, which is up on the top level, and she also loves the cantina, that's where you're going to find her.

– Adriana Orsini

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think we're not seeing the Ukrainian defenses buckle, they're hanging on, but it is a grinding fight.

– Colin Kahl

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would never, ever tell somebody not to follow their dream, i would just say, ‘If you’re dead serious about what you’re doing, you got to buckle up and take it. You’ve got to sacrifice as far as you can and compromise, but don’t ever sacrifice your soul and your principles and your values.’ That’s where Ruthanna and I differ. I would never tell a young person not to follow their dream because I would crush somebody. Even if they weren’t that talented, I wouldn’t tell them that.

– Dolly Parton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Buckle up, a bumpy ride is in the cards, the Wall of Worry has added a few bricks of uncertainty around inflation, monetary policy, Ukraine, masking and pandemic cases.

– Louis Navellier

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This promises to be a bigger term than we’ve had the last few years, buckle up.

– Constitutional Studies Ilya Shapiro

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The model is going to continue to change, so buckle up.

– Jordan Rodgers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This has all the earmarks of a track buckle also, sometimes a locomotive, which is heavier, will make it through.

– Russ Quimby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are not going to buckle to the big lie in the state of Texas, we are not here smiling, we are not spiking the ball, we are not saying we are happy. In fact we are sad for democracy in the state of Texas.

– Rafael Anchia

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Getting drivers to slow down and obey the speed limit, buckle up every trip and always drive sober will be key to reversing these negative trends.

– Adam Snider

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Which vehicle manufacturer is going to buckle first and become a contract builder for a company like Apple ? That's the question.

– Peter Wells

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We should buckle up. This will be a long ride, cleanup is just phase one.

– Dmitri Alperovitch

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I don't believe coal actually has any advantages over renewables, but with renewables' financing constrained post-pandemic, Southeast Asian policymakers may ignore environmental impacts and buckle to the lure of Chinese build and finance coal power plants.

– Andrew Affleck

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This is n’t easy, but if you can buckle down and work hard to get approved, the delayed gratification will most certainly be worth it.

– Corey Meyer

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

If South Korea realizes that Japan is resolved to maintain the firm stance, that will give them an incentive to buckle down and decide what they should do now.

– Narushige Michishita

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are dealing with a strategic rival -- and they are trying to buckle our knees.

– Peter Navarro

Found on CNN
4 years ago

China wants to buckle our knees so that they can have their way with us.

– Ron Vara

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You really feel the ground shifting under your feet, but if you're home, you've got a seatbelt on your couch. No. 1, why ? No. 2, buckle up.

– Stephen Colbert

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Each individual (ruling) Liberal Democratic Party member must take the results to heart and buckle down.

– Shinzo Abe

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know. If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.

– Virginia Democratic lawmaker

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We've got a whole host of information that we are going to be releasing relating to Mr. Cohen and relating to Mr. Trump, so they better buckle up.

– Michael Avenatti

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Democracy can buckle when we give in to fear, so just as we, as citizens, must remain vigilant against external aggression, we must guard against a weakening of the values that make us who we are.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Imagine a flat piece of canvas with paint on it. If you roll it face in, the pressure will be on the edges of that paint. It's going to want to buckle, if you roll it face out, your curve is on the inside. Your outer paint level is going to expand and not buckle.

– Gordon Jones

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Either buckle under the pressure or I can pick myself up and make a new normal.

– Shelby Smith

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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