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
• Iran is not about to capitulate.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
• The studio had no choice but to capitulate.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
• In their eyes, calls for unity are nothing but a demand for the left to capitulate.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 11 May 2017
• The companies have to have the courage not to capitulate.
  — Max Tani, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Who thought that this blockade would make Iran capitulate?
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 25 May 2026
• 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
• That is the objective, and that is about forcing humans to capitulate in some way.
  — Colin Demarest, Axios, 17 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• The company needed to work to change the system, not capitulate to it.
  — Holly Alpine, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2024
• This season, the show tried to capitulate with a negligible dose of stronger medicine.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• Pythons are constrictors, known to grip prey in their jaws, coil around it, then squeeze until the victim capitulates.
  — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
• This doesn't mean the West should capitulate to all of Russia's demands.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 19 Jan. 2022
• Alex and the band capitulated, with the proviso that the video would be free of gimmickry.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
• That is a big part of it but a team that has been imperious for so long shouldn’t capitulate like this because one player is out.
  — Joe Prince-Wright, Nbc Sports, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024
• 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
• And the pro-climate change was so compelling, the other guys capitulated.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 30 Nov. 2018
• Every time teeth gnash, palms sweat and pulses race, the Broncos capitulate.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
• But the Supreme Leader would not capitulate.
  — Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026
• Yet the air campaign, costing billions of dollars, has not forced Iran to capitulate and loosen its grip on the strait.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
• 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
• But for Church, that desire for longevity didn’t mean capitulating.
  — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2026
• Many have joked about capitulating to the network’s advertising and giving the show a try.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
• By contrast, the Iranian regime did not capitulate, but fought back, even while lacking a supreme leader for days.
  — Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
• But even Swift's father has capitulated to the Chiefs' evil empire.
  — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
• If the government in Kyiv falls, the country would likely capitulate.
  — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• Instead, the Board capitulated to Musk's terms and then failed to prove that those terms were entirely fair.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024