[
US
/ˈbəkəɫ/
]
[ UK /bˈʌkəl/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌkəl/ ]
VERB
- fasten with a buckle or buckles
-
fold or collapse
His knees buckled -
bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
The highway buckled during the heat wave
NOUN
- fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong
- a shape distorted by twisting or folding
How To Use buckle In A Sentence
- It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.
- In many places, glittering among the clothes, were gold and silver coins, a few silver ornaments such as buckles, and watches -- things not missed by the pirates in the transport of their flight. The Frozen Pirate
- A swingle-tree hung at the pole's end, and a second pair of reins was fast to the driver's seat, the four cheek-buckles lying crossed over the wheeler's backs. Ambrotox and Limping Dick
- He buckled them into place with a strap that dented my forehead, and gave me a wire to bite. Times, Sunday Times
- He reached to his waist and undid the belt buckle as he was talking to the corpsman.
- When she reached down to unbuckle her tool belt, she stopped: the gun. FOLLY
- A dashing swashbuckler of love, loss, and revenge in the midst of a plot to hide a conspiracy involving Napoleon's return to power.
- She took a leather strap and buckled it around my wrist, attaching the dagger to it, pulling the sleeve down to conceal the weapon.
- Yet he never buckled, never once cracked and instead showed a strength of character that even I, his friend for years, didn't know he possessed.
- I didn't grow much until I was about fourteen by which time it was still functioning as a mini gaberdine raincoat as per the fashion and with the belt buckled around the back as you did. Harbingers