Example sentences for: capitulated

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

  • Berger could only reply in exasperation that Saddam had "capitulated" on the key issue of weapons inspections.

  • Shortly after NATO's bombs stopped falling and Milosevic capitulated, Rieff assessed the lessons of Kosovo in a short Newsweek piece that made the case--from the safety of retrospect, naturally--for ground troops.

  • In the 1480s, the Christians launched a new offensive; Ronda capitulated to the sovereigns Ferdinand and Isabella in 1485, followed by Málaga in 1487 and Almería in 1488.

  • United States forces captured Los Angeles in 1847, and the Mexicans capitulated at Cahuenga.

  • After a lightning victory over the ill-prepared French armies, the Germans marched on Paris and laid siege to the city, which finally capitulated in January 1871 in the face of dwindling food supplies.


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