subdue

Example Sentences

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One comic gimmick involves Appa’s superhuman grip that can subdue even the mightiest of men.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

They are just data brokers doing business, they say, and it’s not their fault if what they gather and sell is used to subdue and surveil people.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026

Fern, whose pen name wouldn’t be widely familiar until 1851, was a bright and spirited girl whose time at a religious school failed to subdue her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

If they can subdue a dangerous, if tired, Argentina side next weekend, that would be 11 successive wins for England and only one defeat in 2025.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

I felt pain, and then I felt ire; and then I felt a determination to subdue her—to be her mistress in spite both of her nature and her will.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë