Example sentences for: succumbed

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

  • , 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.

  • If you missed the link in the article, on how newsrooms have succumbed to the anti-drug hysteria.

  • The golden age of Xi’an (as Chang’an) ended more than a thousand years ago, when the Tang succumbed to rebellion and anarchy.

  • Most other historic buildings around the square succumbed to the devastating earthquake of 1755 (see page 18).

  • 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.


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