Example sentences for: concession

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

  • Typically, extortion means that you're threatening someone with harm or embarrassment to extract a concession.

  • His persistent, polite diplomacy revived weapons inspections (which have eliminated far more Iraqi weapons than the war did); calmed nerves throughout the Arab world; and saved the Clinton administration from an ill-conceived, unpopular bombing plan--all without an apparently meaningful concession to Iraq.

  • It is not until he is well launched on his wrongheaded bill of particulars that Mr. Gottlieb makes an interesting concession.

  • Partial or sometimes even full concession in hospital charges may be offered to these patients.

  • A great-aunt had the candy concession in a Yiddish theater on the Lower East Side of New York City.


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