succumb

Example Sentences

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The question is whether the party now meekly succumbs to the browbeating:

From The Wall Street Journal

The sentiments were more hopeful than one might expect, given how it’s so easy to succumb to despair right now.

From Los Angeles Times

Weir was diagnosed with cancer in July and had beaten the disease, but "succumbed to underlying lung issues," his family said in a statement on his personal website, without specifying where or when he died.

From Barron's

"If you succumb to temptation you basically give in. You eat that biscuit and then you carry on eating."

From BBC

But Isabel Losada’s book encourages readers to undertake a seemingly impossible mission: finding delight in navigating the absurd situations that committed environmentalists inevitably face, rather than succumbing to frustration.

From Los Angeles Times