Sentence examples for Succumbed from inspiring English sources

The phrase "Succumbed" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate yielding to a superior force or giving in to an overwhelming influence, often in a negative context. Example: "After a long battle with temptation, she finally succumbed to the dessert menu."

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Succumbed

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Past of succumb

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And then possibly long after that, too, although hopefully most of us will have succumbed to the warm tendrils of death by then.

BP was encouraged to sell its stake in TNK-BP for an initial $12.5bn in cash plus an 18.5% stake – now raised to 20% – when its private sector partners succumbed to its own pressure from Rosneft.

Quoting unnamed sources, the Russian independent news channel TV Rain said the Russian leader, 62, had succumbed to flu and retreated to his secluded lakeside residence in Valdai, midway between Moscow and St Petersburg.

I remember, in a National Front TV broadcast, an old soldier describing his dismay, after fighting in two world wars, that Britain had succumbed to an invasion from from the 'dark Commonwealth'.

Diego Costa remains hamstrung, while Loïc Rémy – formerly of these parts and a scorer of winning goals in his current team's previous two matches – had succumbed to a "small injury" to his calf.

Gonzales says she reads everything about what may have happened to the plane: theories it was hijacked, or laden with lithium-ion batteries that exploded, or otherwise succumbed to foul play.

Grosics did his best between the posts, but the team succumbed to Wales in a bruising play-off, thus failing to advance beyond the first stage.

Both strikers have succumbed to injuries early on, leaving the combative Éder as his sole option.

He had captained the team in Melbourne, in the absence of the injured Ricky Ponting, and had even had a "late-night nightclub incident" to cope with as an Australian side better than this one on paper succumbed to artful English seam.

"Arguably that's one of the big reasons we have failed so far on climate policy because we have succumbed to that temptation.

Charlotte Alter, an American journalist, wrote in Time magazine last month that her mother said this to her when she was 12: "Horrified relatives said I would need years of therapy to forgive my mother for 'fat-shaming' me into anorexia, that I would eventually turn to drugs and cutting to heal my crippled psyche before I succumbed to a life of crime.

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