Examples of 'had given way' in a sentence
Meaning of "had given way"
The phrase 'had given way' is typically used to describe a situation where something has collapsed or broken under pressure or force. It can also express the idea of yielding or surrendering to a particular condition or emotion
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had given way
Nickelodeons had given way to movie palaces.
He wondered if his brain had given way.
Fear had given way to ambition.
Her cool authority had given way.
Copper had given way to bronze.
One of the tunnels had given way.
Hunger had given way to it.
The stitches of the canvases had given way.
Political tolerance had given way to violent extremism.
The pillars of an ancient crypt beneath the church had given way.
Her health had given way.
Had given way to a blinding anger at my powerlessness over the unfair whims of men.
Ritual violence had given way to civil war.
They could not resist those before whom a serried line of infantry had given way.
Perfectionism had given way to process.
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The survivors sought shelter in a nearby monastery whose monks had given way to higher ground.
The autumn had given way to a hard winter of discontent.
Hallen sat down as if his knees had given way beneath him.
Tructural surpluses had given way to a relative balance which ought to be stabilized.
But it had been a long time since the disappointment had given way to a deep pain.
Vibrant woman had given way to the ravages of time.
By this time the original lamp and reflector arrangement had given way to a Fresnel lens.
Power and prestige had given way to struggle and grasping for an identity.
After a final crash, the bars of the cell had given way.
Her cool authority had given way to anxious flight.
In less than a day, the Axis troops in the west had given way.
After the war of movement had given way to position warfare.
Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone, the will was powerless.
The early morning sunshine had given way to a threatening sky.
Woomera 's rigging, pared back to the very minimum of mass, had given way.
The quiet apprehension had given way to a darkness heavier to bear.
Duke Alfonso 's long-sufferance at last had given way.
The relative stability of capitalism had given way to a period of gigantic cataclysms.
Had given way to, “ He works like Macdonald, ” except with the older.
Because now the humiliation and depression had given way to blinding anger at my powerlessness.
And blame had given way to responsibility, to truth, to forgiveness.
And I felt the hopelessness had given way to a serenity.
The arms race had given way to a joint bilateral undertaking for nuclear disarmament.
Because now, the humiliation and depression had given way to a blinding anger.
The Soviet-American duopoly had given way to a Sino-American duopoly, which won a combined 20 % of the medals.
It follows that some statements, by their position mediators had given way to concrete experiments.
Sixties optimism had given way to the troubled Seventies.
I met him when… his irritability and legendary aggressiveness… had given way to a profound gentleness.
Camp X-Ray had given way to Camp Delta.
In Thelma Chalifoux 's generation, the pursuit of the buffalo had given way to waged employment.
By then, spring had given way to early summer.
By the mid-nineteenth century, the dog travois had given way to the horse travois.
The Asian miracle had given way to an Asian crisis.
They have never been replaced, the Empire had given way to the Republic.
If one single atom had given way I would have died.
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