Example sentences for: succumbed

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

  • As an Englishman long addicated to spoonerisms and living in German-speaking parts, I have inevitably succumbed to the spell of the Schuttelreim .

  • Henry Dexter White, once a top adviser to FDR and then head of the International Monetary Fund, succumbed to a heart attack in August 1948.

  • Of the four with no milk, three succumbed to hypothermia more rapidly than the rest.

  • The judge claimed mental incapacitation: Jilted by Silverman, he'd succumbed to a manic depression that was exacerbated by an addiction to prescription amphetamines.

  • 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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