give way to

Idioms  

1. see give way, def. 4 and 5.

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Example Sentences

Periods of apparent advantage give way to new forms of competition.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Initial public euphoria over Pakistan's image being burnished on the global stage has begun to give way to fraying patience after weeks of stop-start restrictions around Islamabad.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Adjacent to the living area, there is an elegant dining room with wood-beamed ceilings and black glass doors doors the give way to the outside.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

But the doubt and discomfort give way to arguments by Hybe chairman Bang Si-hyuk, the man who picked the seven of them to create BTS.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

October 4,1957, was the midnight of the postwar era, and the end of the naive hope that the conflict that was ended by an atomic bomb would give way to an era of global peace.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly