How to Use capitulation in a Sentence

capitulation

noun

• But to now sit back and not adjust would come off close to capitulation.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 25 May 2021
• Which makes sense, given that capitulation to the dom is part of the kink.
  — Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, 7 May 2018
• But that tough talk has not brought Iran's capitulation.
  — Michael Collins, USA Today, 8 May 2026
• When the two sides are so far apart, compromise looks a lot like capitulation.
  — David French, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
• But an endless war or capitulation to Putin would be far worse.
  — Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2024
• That doesn’t seem to suggest that investors have reached the point of capitulation.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
• The capitulation to Moore was a dry run for the coming assault on the rule of law.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Dec. 2017
• But the raids seemed to do little to bring Japan's capitulation.
  — Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 7 Mar. 2020
• The capitulation at the back in midweek will be a cause for concern for Klopp.
  — SI.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• Kyiv says that would amount to capitulation and leave it defenceless.
  — Pavel Polityuk, USA Today, 20 May 2025
• Günter lifts his feet back onto the couch and lies down, both ashamed and relieved at his capitulation.
  — Stephen O’Connor, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• The Reds are at a point when their capitulation of the past three seasons needs to turn into progress.
  — Paul Daugherty [email protected], Cincinnati.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Many Democrats in Congress cast the move as a brazen capitulation to banks.
  — Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
• After decades of capitulation, maybe cities and towns really have said enough is enough.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Iran has so far refused to accept any proposal that in its eyes would amount to capitulation.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 23 May 2026
• Threatened is the key word, as capitulations became the norm.
  — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 1 May 2026
• This gets my vote, but what chance is there when compromise is seen as capitulation, and both sides are too invested in the war?
  — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Giving her a more minor role in the next film feels like a tacit capitulation for that toxic fandom.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
• Kyiv believes that Putin will not budge on his desire for the full capitulation of Ukraine.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
• But the Democratic base has seen the move as a capitulation to Trump.
  — Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
• What some have seen as savvy business practices, others have seen as media capitulation.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
• The massive sell-off and recovery could be the sign of capitulation that investors have been hoping for.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Now, a capitulation on prices by the biggest miners is sparking the industry back to life.
  — Thomas Biesheuvel, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Trump tried to walk back his seeming capitulation to Putin the next day, but not very convincingly.
  — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 2 June 2018
• In some respects, will is a capitulation to reality, a response to the fact that each of us must meet our basic needs.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2022
• Spoelstra stopped short of calling this one capitulation.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2026
• Tesla has refused to do this for a long time in spite of strong pressure to do so, so the capitulation shows an interesting change of heart.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• In seasons gone by, Arthur Masuaku's sending off would have led to an away day capitulation.
  — SI.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• This sentence is lengthy and unjust,and shows a capitulation by the judge against her oath to administer justice.
  — Joey Jackson, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
• The myth arose within hours of the conflict breaking out and when Ukrainian fears of a total capitulation were at their height.
  — NBC News, 2 May 2022