Example sentences for: surrendering

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

  • What is wrong is surrendering control of that copy to such persons.

  • There are precedents for surrendering authority for joint planning while preserving an agency's operational control.

  • The king saved Spain by surrendering his own power to the people: Now even socialists want to preserve the monarchy.

  • Despite five days of intensive negotiation in Belfast, David Trimble, the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, continues to insist that he will not agree to share power with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, unless the IRA simultaneously starts surrendering its hidden weapons.

  • A 5-km (3-mile) hike to the interior brings you to the remains of the Temple of Poseidon where the famous Greek orator Demosthenes committed suicide in 322 b.c. rather than surrendering to Alexander the Great’s forces.


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