Example sentences for: surrender

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

  • They preach vulnerability, humility, contrition, intimacy, sharing, weeping, tenderness, and surrender.

  • The coverage is largely upbeat, with only the LAT including the following: 1) Although Yasser Arafat publicly supports the talks, privately the Palestinians were stunned by them and fear that they will have an adverse affect on their own dealings with the Israelis; 2) the political opposition in Israel is not pleased, with one right-wing party viewing the talks as a complete surrender to Syria; and 3) there is much bitterness too from Golan Heights residents who fear losing their homes.

  • Just when the Mexicans were on the point of surrender, the rains came early and the Indians, obedient to their gods, dropped their weapons and returned to their milpas to plant the sacred corn.

  • Democrats persuasively called Livingston's resignation "a surrender to a developing sexual McCarthyism," portrayed Clinton as a fellow victim of this McCarthyism, and argued that Clinton should be spared expulsion as a first step toward ending the madness.

  • This restriction reinforces the notion of the imperial family as living descendents and representatives of the gods — despite the emperor’s renunciation of divinity announced as one of the terms of surrender at the end of World War II (when some people literally fainted upon hearing the emperor’s voice on the radio for the first time).


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