surrender
Example Sentences
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It comes after the tourists surrendered the series inside three Tests and follows reports of excessive drinking on their holiday in Noosa.
From BBC
Though typically seen as a symbol for surrender, the white flags that have popped up across the province – on broken rooftops, along eroded riverbanks and outside mosques – are a call for international solidarity, protesters say.
From BBC
A Met Police spokesperson said: "On Wednesday, 19 November, Metropolitan Police firearms licensing officers attended an address in Windsor to request that a man in his 60s voluntarily surrender his firearms and shotgun certificate."
From BBC
Coolidge saw in “the marvelous history of the Jewish people” a special lesson in their “capacity for adaptation in detail, without surrender of essentials.”
It is remarkable that the U.S. fought another war only five years after the Japanese surrender at Tokyo Bay.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
