How to Use capitulate in a Sentence

capitulate

verb

• The teacher refused to capitulate: no calculators were to be used during the exam.
• The country still refuses to capitulate despite its weakening army and dwindling resources.
• Now the union has forced Sanders to capitulate on wages and health care.
  — Marc A. Thiessen, The Mercury News, 24 July 2019
• Putin won’t capitulate; that would mean the end of his rule.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
• If the Colts get an early lead, the Bears aren’t going to capitulate the way the Vikings and Jets did.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2020
• And, by the way, the real-estate agent didn’t capitulate.
  — The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2019
• In their eyes, calls for unity are nothing but a demand for the left to capitulate.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 11 May 2017
• This doesn't mean the West should capitulate to all of Russia's demands.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 19 Jan. 2022
• My plan is to work out at least four times a week, maybe five, and not find excuses this time for capitulating to the couch.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• Spurs capitulated as the game approached full-time but even so, the hunger and will to win well from City was breathtaking to watch.
  — SI.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• For the most part, the Colts defense has played like that all season long, only to capitulate under the weight of the pressure the offense is putting on them.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 27 Dec. 2022
• But there is no sign yet that Iran will be willing to capitulate to Trump’s demands.
  — David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2019
• Many will capitulate and panic somewhere along the bottom, in both stocks and bonds, and live to regret it two ways.
  — James Berman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• To get the gavels and move things along, Democrats may have to give up much of their power and capitulate to McConnell’s request on the filibuster.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 22 Jan. 2021
• The goals would be two-fold: get Kyiv to capitulate, and persuade the West to end its military assistance to Ukraine.
  — Steven Pifer, Time, 18 Oct. 2022
• But Pelosi thus far doesn't seem willing to capitulate on the size and key sticking points, and neither does McConnell.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2020
• The Iranians will not capitulate in any way, shape, or form.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
• The selloff has been so extreme it’s forced bullish investors to capitulate and Wall Street banks to tear up their forecasts.
  — Alice Gledhill, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
• This season, the show tried to capitulate with a negligible dose of stronger medicine.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• Younger ones look with alarm at Syriza, the far-left Greek party which capitulated to the EU after coming to office in 2015.
  — The Economist, 30 Oct. 2019
• What many did doubt was that Gantz would capitulate, just as Blue and White was gaining leverage, to shape the terms of a unity government.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2020
• Clark said the aim of the Russian military in Grozny was not just to force Chechen separatists to capitulate but to destroy the city itself as a way to break their will.
  — Paul Sonne and Ellen Nakashima, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2022
• Under the circumstances, the only question is not whether the Frugal Four will capitulate but when and how.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Apr. 2020
• And yet, Hawley is asking Biden to capitulate to Putin.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
• And the pro-climate change was so compelling, the other guys capitulated.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 30 Nov. 2018
• Their response was not merely to capitulate to this state of affairs, but to work, slowly yet surely, to change it.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 1 Nov. 2020
• The terms of any peace treaty remain cloudy, though Azerbaijan, which forced Nagorno-Karabakh defense forces to capitulate last week, clearly has the upper hand.
  — Astrig Agopian, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
• If the government in Kyiv falls, the country would likely capitulate.
  — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• Some sit out the whole boom-and-bust cycle and feel relieved at the end, but others capitulate at a late stage, with results that reinforce their pessimism.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2010
• Pep Guardiola's side looked primed and ready to seal the title after going 2-0 up, but capitulated in the second half at the Etihad to lose 3-2.
  — SI.com, 10 Apr. 2018

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