How to Use admit defeat in a Sentence

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• At this point, TV lovers just have to throw up our hands and admit defeat.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2024
• Others won’t admit defeat, even when there isn’t a soul in line for tickets.
  — Debbi Snook, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
• That left these two women alone with each other, in the kind of crisis where most bands would admit defeat.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
• But rather than admit defeat in this area and move on, FAM doubles down.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2022
• Most admit defeat right then and there, halfway knowing that the sale might as well have fallen through already.
  — Solomon Thimothy, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• Ava finally gets her boss to admit defeat, but only after fighting fire with fire.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 10 Apr. 2025
• Bosses are clinging to the success of the past, workers refuse to go back, and no one is willing to admit defeat.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2022
• Bashmakova, who was clear and direct in her protest, would not admit defeat so easily.
  — Markus Ziener, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
• The ability to admit defeat and not make excuses is not only important in sports, but in life.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
• The only other options are to trade for an arm at the top of their rotation, or admit defeat once again and validate their nay-sayers.
  — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
• To accept the impossibility of treatment is to admit defeat, which most people are loathe to do.
  — L.s. Dugdale, STAT, 27 Nov. 2020
• Even so, Aegon will not admit defeat, and the Dance only ends when Aegon’s own men poison him.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 22 July 2024
• Either way, the app creators are surprisingly willing to admit defeat.
  — Clive Thompson, Wired, 27 July 2021
• Never one to admit defeat, Picard amassed his own scrappy crew over the next few episodes for his unauthorized rescue mission.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
• But giving Biden daily intelligence briefings does not require him to admit defeat.
  — The Editors, National Review, 12 Nov. 2020
• Sign up Chaos and ugliness seem all but certain in November because our two-party democracy needs one side to admit defeat and walk away.
  — Theunis Bates, theweek, 1 Oct. 2024
• Taft won the nomination, yet Roosevelt refused to admit defeat, claiming the entire nominating process was fixed from the start.
  — Time, 15 Nov. 2022
• Now, the Tesla boss has been forced to admit defeat once again as no new Tesla’s will ship with support for Steam games on their infotainment systems.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 21 May 2024
• Instead the drama remains mostly psychological, as hunger takes its toll and the holdouts one by one admit defeat, with the ailing Numo among the last of them.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
• They’ve also been forced to defend that decision because Virginia officials have decided to keep fighting rather than admit defeat.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• Most people would just admit defeat, but Jayasimha grabbed two friends, some foil, and a microwave, and set to work building a homemade device to get rid of the geolocation restrictions.
  — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2024
• The American military, meanwhile, suggested that to pursue détente was to admit defeat.
  — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Despite Becka’s best efforts — including jumping in after her — the trio can’t locate her and eventually admit defeat and return home.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 4 Dec. 2024
• Democrats may not admit defeat until the last day of September, when this year’s reconciliation resolution expires.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• The Durbin Amendment has not worked out so well for consumers–and Congress should have repealed it in 2017–but Durbin and his acolytes are not about to admit defeat.
  — Norbert Michel, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• There also is a portion devoted to Roy Cohn, the bulldog Manhattan attorney who became a bit of a mentor to Trump, teaching him to never admit defeat and to always fight back.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
• Our heroes’ overwhelming repentance and bloodguilt make a fine, sharp contrast with Quaritch, Varang, and the humans’ flagrant brazenness, their constant refusal to admit defeat or express doubt or show mercy or even, frankly, die.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
• The president is a misinformation superspreader, as The Washington Post and others have documented, and loath to admit defeat.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2020