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Example sentences for "buckled"

Lexicographically close words:
buckett; buckeye; buckeyes; bucking; buckle; buckler; bucklers; buckles; buckling; bucko
  1. Bud left soon afterward as the two Swifts buckled down to work on the problem of perfecting an apparatus to simulate the human senses.

  2. With hope alive, Tom turned icy calm and buckled down to the work at hand.

  3. Therefore it was a great surprise when he slipped among us from a snowy corner, leading a rough unsaddled colt, with a strap buckled over his loins to which a sword was attached on one side, and a rusty old musket on the other.

  4. So I buckled on a basket, which would hold some 50lb.

  5. Diagrams to show how railway tracks are either broken or buckled locally within the district visited by an earthquake.

  6. Railway tracks broken or buckled at time of earthquake 75 65.

  7. The boy has buckled his belt about, And thro' the green-wood ran; And he cam to the ladye's bower Before the day did dawn.

  8. In the deep silence of the night he buckled on a saber, the blade of which, by reason of its having been broken, was barely eight inches long, and the hilt whereof was battered and rusty.

  9. Then the two tapering ends of the pack strap are brought up and over, to meet the opposite ends of the narrow straps, which, as has been explained, are either sewed to, or buckled onto the wide head strap.

  10. It consists of a strap of leather about three inches wide and about three feet long, from each end of which, a tapering piece of leather, either sewed or buckled to it, extends finally to a narrow point no wider than a whip-lash.

  11. For the baron buckled on the armour of a century ago, which had served his grandsire through hard blows in foreign battles, and, with a few of his trusty servants, rode to join the Parliament.

  12. Hence it happened that the six great Flemish horses were buckled to, early in September of the first year of the civil war, while the king was on his westward march collecting men and money.

  13. We started from our beds, with frantic haste buckled on swords, spurs, and pistols, hurried servants after the horses, and hastened to report for duty to the General.

  14. Wade buckled on his new skates in a jiffy.

  15. You are nearly sixteen, now, and it is high time you buckled to.

  16. Well, I suppose that is so," Hallett said, as he buckled on his sword.

  17. Pushing back the box on which he sat, he buckled his pistol belt, seized his hat, and strode to the door.

  18. Faith, but he appeared like a new person with his embroidered coat, buckled shoes and powdered hair, smiling and debonair, whispering compliments to me, as he helped me across a strip of mud to the drier ground beyond.

  19. She was immaculate, and from her unlined white forehead to her jewel-buckled shoes she was beautiful in every detail.

  20. Victoria wriggled for a moment to settle the uncomfortable boning of the neck and, having buckled and belted the skirt over the blouse, completed her toilet with her little black and white jacket to match the skirt.

  21. She had her vanities, like other girls of her age, and she could not help thinking they looked rather nice in their buckled shoes as she turned them this way and that in the flickering light.

  22. Too much cold," she muttered, relinquishing them as if unwillingly and putting on the buckled shoes.

  23. She seemed a part of joyous Spring: A gown of grass-green silk she wore, Buckled with golden clasps before; A light-green tuft of plumes she bore Closed in a golden ring.

  24. But we were bound to confess that he was game, though he might be a traitor, for down he came, striding into the midst of us with his brown coat and his buckled shoes, and the fire beating upon his grim, schoolmaster face.

  25. My heart was down in the soles of my little silver-buckled shoes now that I had the immediate prospect of meeting so great and terrible a person as the Prince of Wales.

  26. Rummaging round in the dark, he laid hands on a strap, with which he buckled the folded poncho tightly to his shoulders.

  27. The battle opened at a range of one hundred yards, and Maseden's first shot buckled the framework of the nearest coracle, so that it sank like a stone.

  28. They rolled apart and Morrow leaped to his feet but Waddles had wrenched the leg already numbed by the striking horse and it buckled under him and let him back to the ground as he put his weight on it.

  29. Papoose braced on his haunches and slid down a precipitous bank, buckled up the far side and down again, then swooped across a long flat bench.

  30. Suddenly, as she wept, a little old woman in a high-pointed hat and buckled shoes appeared in the kitchen, and where she came from no one could have told.

  31. The runner stooped down and buckled on his second leg, and then he was ready, and he and the Princess set out.

  32. Fulk buckled on his dagger, dropped the vizor of his bassinet, took his shield and sword, and marched out into the garden.

  33. He removed the belt from his own waist and buckled his Colt’s about her.

  34. He jerked his head towards the door at his elbow in quest of a retreat, a shudder ran over him, his knees buckled and he plunged forward upon his face, his arm still doubled under him.

  35. He took down his Winchester, oiled and cleaned it, then buckled on a belt of cartridges.

  36. The others hastily buckled on their breastplates, caught up their bucklers and helmets, and joined their comrades.

  37. As he ran, he swung the loosely buckled breastplate round on to his back; and it was well he did so for, a moment later, a Roman javelin rang against it, the force of the blow almost throwing him on his face.

  38. Next morning they rose early and buckled on their swords and coats of mail, and fastened on their heads helmets that they had made the day before from the lump of gold.

  39. Suddenly his hand touched the sword buckled on him by Gibourc, which he had forgotten, and he drew it from its scabbard, and with three blows clove the heads of the giants in twain.

  40. And so he chattered on, joyously, pacing my chamber while Dennis buckled my spurs.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buckled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.