conceding

Example Sentences

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Four years after hosting the tournament, they watched their team get pummeled, conceding 10 goals in three games.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

The team achieved a first by securing three consecutive wins without conceding a goal in the group stage.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

The home side won despite conceding 553 in the first innings.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

Cepeda stopped short of conceding defeat in a speech on Sunday evening, telling supporters he would wait until all the votes were validated.

From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026

July arrived and on Seabiscuit went, back to Empire City, where he won the mile-and-three-sixteenths Butler Handicap while conceding between seven and twenty-two pounds to the rest of the field.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand