surrendering

Example Sentences

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San Juan Hills had earlier lost the ball on a turnover, its 19th of the game, surrendering its chance to take the lead.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2026

Omwamba was arrested earlier this month in a town near the Ethiopian border after surrendering to police.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

The great arbitrage of the 21st century is to preserve openness without surrendering agency and to assert sovereignty without cutting oneself from technology, markets, and ideas.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

I’m no Luddite, though I did cling to my BlackBerry, with its winning Lilliputian keyboard, surrendering reluctantly to an iPhone only when the BlackBerry became extinct.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

Tally pulled back into the darkness, trying to ignore the horrible feeling that she was a spy, a sneak, for not surrendering to the woman’s authority.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld