But within three minutes, Miami had tied the score before the home team finally buckled down and won, 89-83.
However, Miles launched a third assault and Heth's weary Confederates finally buckled, then broke.
When the beam finally buckled, the vaulted fretwork around the station's old ticket windows crashed down with a sustained roar.
When he reached out to touch it with grasping empty fingers his knees finally buckled.
Near midnight on March 23, the pipeline finally buckled.
"We finally buckled down and took care of business," Billups said.
After months of resistance, President Bashar al-Assad finally buckled under international pressure and allowed a 100-strong mission to enter.
That is the only way we can strengthen the global response to try and put pressure on the regime to finally buckle and bend.
I want him in the Box,' Gardener said as Wolf's knees finally buckled.
He carried them as far as his 34-year-old legs would allow, until they finally buckled under the burden.