Example sentences for: capitulated

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Among the conservative British newspapers, still regarding the use of ground troops as both desirable and a distinct possibility, the Times of London said in an editorial that Milosevic's "peace" offer to Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov had been just "a feint to split the Alliance" and urged the continuation of the war until Milosevic capitulated.

  • The settlement was "a victory for NATO and a vindication of its belief in modern air power," said the conservative Daily Telegraph --but the paper qualified this with a claim that Milosevic only capitulated because of "the growing willingness of the Alliance to consider the deployment of ground troops."


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