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Example sentences for "succumb"

Lexicographically close words:
succoured; succouring; succours; succulence; succulent; succumbed; succumbing; succumbs; such; suche
  1. If I succumb to your love, I humiliate and abase myself.

  2. The animals that succumb to the disease should be buried deeply and quicklime thrown upon them, also any blood stains upon the ground should have a strong disinfectant thrown upon them.

  3. This is a frequent occurrence in which the drenching proves to be the immediate cause of the animal's death, as in case of strangulation, or the originating cause when drenched animals later succumb to pneumonia, bronchitis, etc.

  4. Are you a victim to rum or other alcoholic stimulants, and if so, at what hour do you usually succumb to the potent enemy?

  5. These three were also the last three outlaws to succumb and return to civilization from outlying portions of the house after the pursuit by waiters.

  6. His eyes began to burn, and he swallowed heavily; but he was never one to succumb piteously to such emotion, and it did not even enter his head that he was at liberty to return to his own home.

  7. They will succumb within a month if kept constantly in country where tse-tse flies are numerous during that time.

  8. The first of them to succumb only lived a fortnight; the second died in five weeks; but the third lived for nearly three months, and carried a buffalo head back to my waggons at Daka--some eighty miles from the Chobi.

  9. At such times these wild people sometimes endure the most terrible privations, and no doubt numbers of them succumb yearly to slow starvation.

  10. Germany and Great Britain, indeed all the Protestant countries, would also inevitably be conquered, for the papacy was the only dike that could be opposed to error, which must some day fatally succumb in its efforts against such a barrier.

  11. It did not succumb in respect of every demand put forth by Austria, but it was sufficiently groveling to insure peace.

  12. I had the full conviction that one day I should be married; I had also some fear that as I grew to manhood I might succumb to the temptations of loose women.

  13. I am not pleading that I must succumb to impulse.

  14. In order not to succumb to his emotion, William I.

  15. He took a very grave view of Miss Wynne's case, and said that her nervous system must shortly succumb to the terrible seizures.

  16. My heart and muse were alike compelled to succumb to necessity.

  17. The spirits of falsehood must, however, eventually succumb to the heavenly might of truth; and darkness must, at last, yield to light!

  18. He felt that his good genius had conducted him to this unhappy man, that he might be taught that the strong alone can bear pain, and that the weak must succumb under the rod of affliction.

  19. The finished bacterium perishes at a temperature far below that of boiling water, and it is fair to assume that the nearer the germ is to its final sensitive condition the more readily will it succumb to heat.

  20. These will not succumb in a brief generation.

  21. Her theory, so far as I understand it, is that men will not endure petty rivalries, but succumb at once to superior attainments.

  22. But we must always repeat to ourselves one thing: whatever folly a woman like her may commit, she will not allow herself to succumb to it.

  23. True, Uncle Joachim had said: "Whatever folly a woman like her may commit, she will not allow herself to succumb to it.

  24. The craftsman was, however, aware that a new influence was at work, and he was prepared to succumb to it where circumstances were favourable.

  25. The utmost that can be said is that here, as in the chapel at Westminster, the Gothic work is preparing to succumb to the new influence.

  26. It was not long before the wall in the front of the Jews' quarter began to crumble, and it was soon evident that it must, ere many days, succumb to the storm of missiles hurled against it.

  27. His idea was that Lilias must be the eldest sister, and perhaps beginning to succumb to the burdens of age.

  28. In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

  29. Those which cannot give the necessary facilities, must succumb sooner or later; those which answer to the latter requirements, may still have a long course of honour and usefulness before them.

  30. It had become certain that, if they continued to destroy each other by internecine warfare, both would succumb to the foreign invader.

  31. They would not succumb without trying the darker sorceries of blood and self-mutilation, which were only resorted to at the most dread extremities.

  32. Better succumb now, and with a good grace, than resist till thou hast reached thy fiftieth year, and then make a rational choice not for thy personal satisfaction.

  33. Thus on and on, until at length, the intellectual nature lost, the instinctive and merely animal functions, now no longer required to sustain the higher faculties, in their turn succumb and fall into inertia.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "succumb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accede; accept; acquiesce; assent; blow; bow; capitulate; cave; cease; collapse; comply; consent; decease; defer; demise; depart; die; disappear; droop; drop; end; expire; faint; fall; fatigue; flag; gasp; jade; knuckle; lose; obey; pant; part; pass; perish; puff; relent; resign; sink; soften; submissive; submit; succumb; surrender; swallow; swoon; take; tire; truckle; tumble; vanish; weary; wheeze; wilt; yield