Example sentences for: surrendered

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

  • The L.A. shooting coverage reports that the subject of a nationwide manhunt, Buford Furrow, materialized yesterday morning unarmed at the FBI's offices in Las Vegas, and surrendered, telling agents he was the shooter (in fact, say the papers, he confessed to murdering children at the center, but none of those shot there have died) and that his purpose in committing the crime was to issue "a wake-up call" for America to start killing Jews.

  • Faster than you can say "Republican revolution," Newt Gingrich has surrendered his job as speaker of the House, and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston, R-La., has wrapped up the contest to replace him.

  • For this patriotic venture against the Moors of North Africa, the people of Porto surrendered the finest cuts of meat in their stores to the navy and lived on tripe instead, thus earning their honorable nickname of tripeiros (literally “tripe eaters,” as people from Porto are commonly known).

  • With a stroke of the brush, the Manchu Dynasty and its child-emperor surrendered in 1911.

  • The man, who later surrendered, turned out to be Pat Buchanan's brother Hank.


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