1.   Above them, something gave way with a long, rending metallic screech.

2.   After a few weeks, our confidence that our embassy had heard of our plight gave way to hopelessness.

3.   After a moment, her knees gave way and she slithered to the floor in a clattering hail of cutlery.

4.   And when they meet on the same road one of the two must give way to the other.

5.   As the dark slowly gave way to light, they saw that the day was going to be hazy.

6.   As the streets and lanes gave way to countryside and sloped toward the deeper valley, the rolling farmland began.

7.   Awkward simulations on digital computers have given way to special processors and high-powered chips.

8.   But vocal music gave way to instrumental music, especially with the development of bow instruments.