Example sentences for: succumbed

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

  • At the same time, though, no one seems to be actually selling their stock, perhaps because everyone's succumbed to the siren song of long-term investing or perhaps because everyone always thinks they'll be the ones who can get out just before the crash.

  • In recent years, however, their number has begun to decline, most by having succumbed to inevitable changes in taste and fashion, a few by having fallen victim to the Black Robes of political correctness.

  • , which was smoked or chewed in the Americas for thousands of years before European invaders also succumbed to its pleasures and shipped it back to the Old World.

  • The Turks’ Indian empire in splinters, it passed into the hands of Afghan horse-breeders — the Lodi — who later succumbed to his descendants, the Mughals.

  • Though González was credited by many as the architect of the new Spain, he finally succumbed to incessant charges of corruption and incompetence in the highest levels of his government.


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