Example sentences for: succumbing

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

  • Given that premise, why couldn't one species--a bacterium or virus, perhaps--run amok and destroy all other life on earth before finally succumbing itself?

  • Although the telecom industry on the one hand is succumbing to merger-mania, on the other hand it's seeing new players spring up regularly, and it's now seeing wannabes such as RCN and Qwest becoming real contenders.

  • Anti-Arafat pundits heaped scorn on museum officials for succumbing to the woolly headed notion that terrorists are educable.

  • While all around grows unmanageably grave, The Simpsons , Eddie Izzard, a James Elroy novel, or the fact that Taco Bell is giving away free alien eyeballs, and I simply have to have one, all prevent my perspectives from succumbing to the kind of cultural isolation and spiteful tunnel vision that has become the hallmark of modern political discussion.

  • In thinking about "de-verticalization" the most obvious risk is succumbing to nostalgia for the days when companies "actually made something."


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