When struck in the neck, the Bee succumbs at once.
Where the Bee, that delicate organism, succumbs in less than half an hour, the Grasshopper, coarse ruminant that he is, resists for a whole day.
The insect succumbs then and there, without any other movement than wild convulsions.
With equal certainty, though not necessarily, the will, when equipped solely with sufficient grace, succumbs to concupiscence.
It is the common teaching of theologians that, without the aid of grace, man in the fallen state succumbs with moral (not physical) necessity to grievous temptations against the moral law, i.
But he has his human side: is influenced by wine, loneliness and the dark, and succumbs to Callirhoe's beauty though he is married to a great and subtle queen.
Clitophon is chaste as far as men can be and succumbsto Melitte only once.
Before the average woman succumbs in this struggle, some man or other must succumb first.
The masculine mind is readily taken in by specious values; the average married man of Protestant Christendom, if he succumbs at all, succumbs to some meretricious and flamboyant creature, bent only upon fleecing him.
For one clerk who succumbs to the houris of the pave, there are five hundred who succumb to lack of means, the warnings of the sex hygienists, and their own depressing consciences.
He cannot be deceived and beguiled; the most secret wickedness is not hidden from him; the swiftest criminal does not escape from him, and the strongest succumbs to his anger.
In the Avesta Vistacpa conquers Arejatacpa; in Firdusi Arjasp finallysuccumbs in the conflict.
Gretel is overcome by fear for a moment, and Hänsel, too, succumbs to fright when he sees a figure approaching through the mist.
Even Sweet, though he bases his New English Grammar upon the spoken language and thus sets the purists at defiance, quickly succumbs to the labelling mania.
The animal then succumbs more rapidly, and the microbes have no time to disappear.
When, however, that exudate is injected into the peritoneal cavity of a second animal that animal does not succumb to the infection, or even if it succumbs one finds that the microbes have again disappeared in this second animal.
Shocked at his perfidy she clasps her hands in agony, then succumbs to "faintings and hysterics," and then goes into a decline.
If one continually succumbs to the notions and desires of others, his own thoughts are rendered meaningless, and likewise, is his existence.
If it succumbs after its appeal to force, power is then called imbecile.
The intellect which soars above a nation cannot escape a great misfortune; I mean the misfortune of finding no equals capable of judging it when it succumbs beneath the weight of untoward events.
In this contest Durand (1843) also takes sides against Bretonneau, and lays particular stress on the point that the diphtheritic patient succumbs rather from the severity of the constitutional symptoms than from suffocation.
It is true that in the spring the herbage grows luxuriantly on these steppes, but it is soon parched by the glow of summer, and after a scanty second growth in the autumn it succumbs to the snow storms of the long winter.
The weakened and poisoned body at last succumbs to disease, while we, in our blindness and ignorance, talk of the mysterious Providence which thus untimely cuts down the brightest intellects.
She remains in his house to nurse the child, and succumbs to the old love which has never died.
The man frequently succumbs to the temptress, but Wagner revolts against this weakness, of which he is himself only too conscious, and in his chief works makes the man offer a desperate, but finally victorious, resistance.
The really daemonic property of the gold is that everybody succumbs to its seduction and strives to possess it.
The parliament succumbs in the attempts to regain possession of the administrative power.
She succumbs to the first pressure of adverse circumstance.
We know that Silvia has a beautiful, strong soul, that she succumbs to the awful pressure of temptation; and the lie she tells is henceforth a memory never lifted from her life.
In this case White does not take precautionary measures, and succumbs in a surprisingly short time.
Black has no means of preventing this, and soon succumbs to the overwhelming array of White forces.
He soon succumbs to net or trap or pin And fills his place the cabinet within.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "succumbs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
