Example sentences for: succumbs

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Unfortunately, Randall E. Stross' The Microsoft Way , an inside look at the software giant that publishes this magazine, will not match the gold standard set by Barbarians and Thieves . The book succumbs to all the usual pitfalls of business writing.

  • 7. There are lengthy usage notes and synonym studies in W that do not appear in L at all or in greatly abbreviated form, sometimes mercifully so, for W occasionally succumbs to prolixity.

  • And it so permeates public discourse that even the opposition helplessly or unwittingly succumbs.


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