Example sentences for: succumb

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

  • Naipaul warns that the country may succumb to "nihilism."

  • However, motor neuron deficit appears functionally unaffected and the newborn pups still succumb through inability to suckle.

  • As we learn more and more clearly in each volume, there are lots of ways to help the forces of darkness: You can join them with all your heart, but you can also succumb to prejudice, or self-righteousness, or some apparently silly temptation.

  • Fincher ( Seven , 1995; The Game , 1997) is out to bombard you with so much feverish imagery that you have no choice but to succumb to the movie's reeling, punch-drunk worldview.

  • Mice lacking both copies of this gene are for the most part viable, but succumb to cancer (mainly thymic lymphomas) at three to five months of age (Donehower et al.


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