Example sentences for: succumbs

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

  • Most people don't want to vote for a party that constantly succumbs to extortion from an extreme faction.

  • More questionable are the bits where he paddles casually through a tub of preserved viscera from some long-gone sufferer from situs inversus (mirror-reversed organs) and succumbs to laughter at the sight of Ditto, the amazing two-faced pig.

  • Twilight is The Late Show without the spitfire, and it succumbs to the paralysis it means to portray.

  • As Theroux describes Bunt's speculations about Hung's guilt, he succumbs to the urge to preach: "The evidence was not in the room, the evidence was missing--that stark neatness was the proof that a bloody crime had been committed.

  • When she succumbs to Clooney's Irish allure, you know there's going to be a "but."


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