What is "buckling"

Usage examples of "buckling".

All three turned to look for their axes, but the ground was heaving and buckling even more violently and their axes had completely disappeared underneath the loose covering of leaves and pines needles that littered the surface.

Its very shape was changing, twisting and buckling with neoteric forces it did not understand.

TV screen, his best and only friend, the giant Zenith, literally bigger than he is, bigger than life, an angel, a devil, a god, sucking in amber waves of radiation that will cause his hair to repeal at twenty-three, watching Johnny fucking Quest fight the lizards and live the two-dimensional four-color good life like a young, cartoon Hemingway, wishing his mom and dad were there to hold him and tell him that everything was alright and to promise him that life would not become boring and predictable and that he would not wish for death while slurping booze in a death-disco fernless bar while being watched -- and he KNEW it -- through small eyes by two dead-fish women whose bitterness was oozing through their skin, literally, oozing, only to be held in check by a wall, a fortification, really, of caked-on, buckling makeup, psychically pin-pricked by these lumps of plodding DNA?

Lower, and the trees were distressed by the down-draught and even the stiff, rimy ferns began buckling, attempting and imitating movement they might have possessed before death.

Captain Barker had plucked the napkin from his throat, caught up his sword from a chair, and was buckling on the belt in a tremendous hurry.

Six of them toppled immediately: masses of twitching, disorganized, heterogeneous matter that ruined the floor wherever they fell, warping and buckling it with blitter scars.

Where his younger brother had the big slab-sided Flanders-mare build of the old woman, who, though she was drowned in pale cool fat, still had the solid muscles given by a hundred years of buckling into the beetroot harvest under the skies of Artois, he had the loosely jointed clotheshorse look of the old man who, in his sleeveless vest and bib-and-brace salopette, had the scrawny neck of a plucked turkey and whose puckered blue jaw moved awkwardly and woodenly to and fro in an uncertain wobble the whole time, rather as though a wasp were buzzing about just at the back of his neck and he was trying to catch a glimpse of it, to know where to launch a smack from the desiccated forearm.

In examining of all opinions, the Master and others affirmed they knew the ship to be strong and firm under water, and for the buckling bending or bowing of the main beam, there was a great iron scrue the passengers brought out of Holland which would raise the beam into its place.

A glance at the senyor, buckling himself into the opposite seat without concern, was enough to allay her fears.

The buildings surrounding him were decaying, the streets buckling and choked with uncollected trash.

It changed in sped-up corrasion, in the buckling of tectonics at some psychotic rate as if time was untethered from its rules.

Even from here, Francesa could see the heavy paving stones buckling around the edges of the huge craft.

Then when the first great earth buckling had convulsed the region in the Comanchian Age, a frightful line of peaks had shot suddenly up amidst the most appalling din and chaos--and earth had received her loftiest and most terrible mountains.

Half the men had assembled and the rest came running, buckling on helmets or fastening leather brigandines around their torsos.

Echoing groans buffeted him, the flat, hard ground beneath him slowly buckling and shifting.