Example sentences for: capitulate

How can you use “capitulate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Those craven souls knuckle under because, weak and untenured in their pathetic tweeds, they must capitulate or end up doing yard work at some ethnically cleansed eating club.

  • In its editorial Monday, the South China Morning Post deplored the "blind arrogance" of NATO in believing it can drive a man like President Slobodan Milosevic to capitulate through airstrikes alone, and it said that the orchestrated protests in China are "understandable."

  • After 20 years of resistance, the Song armies were finally ready to capitulate.

  • Two questions: 1) What made the once-invincible tobacco makers capitulate?

  • The Russian daily Kommersant said that the air raids show that "Russia will no longer capitulate to Chechnya but will only speak in the language of force" and concluded the raids have rendered the Chechen leadership "less bellicose."


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