How to Use surrender in a Sentence

surrender

1 of 2 verb

• The troops were forced to surrender the fort.
• They were required to surrender their passports.
• He refused to surrender to despair.
• The gunman surrendered and was taken into custody.
• He refused to surrender himself to despair.
• The enemy finally surrendered after three days of fighting.
• In his view, that move amounts to surrender.
  — semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2025
• Schultz surrendered a triple to Tatis with one out.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
• And surrendered two goals or fewer in five of them.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 10 May 2026
• Be prepared to surrender your phone at the door, too.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
• Martin surrendered six hits, struck out two and walked two in the loss.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
• Gilbert surrendered two hits and struck out six while walking four.
  — ABC News, 22 May 2026
• Those who were allowed in were forced to surrender their phones.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026
• And so far, Hamas has not surrendered.
  — Nbc News, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
• Learning when to stand your ground and when to surrender.
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
• Whom now are they supposed to surrender to?
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
• The son refused to surrender to deputies.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Feb. 2026
• Seattle can still make the playoffs but surrenders a lot on the ground.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• The Sox surrendered six runs in the eighth on the way to being swept.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
• Yet Weil would not surrender her conscience to any creed.
  — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
• At least three of the suspects stayed in the car and surrendered to police.
  — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 2 May 2026
• All but two of the six runs Brown surrendered were unearned.
  — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
• And many of them want to surrender into saving their lives.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
• And maybe, just maybe, forces Hamas to surrender in Gaza.
  — Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
• Which is fine … if the team is scoring enough to outrun goals surrendered.
  — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
• Tyler Arnold surrendered one hit in three shutout innings for the save.
  — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
• Valdez surrendered five runs and did not finish the fifth inning.
  — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2025
• The future needs minds that can dance with machines, not minds that surrender to them.
  — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
• Stafford surrendered three turnovers in that loss to the Panthers.
  — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026
• He was also ordered to surrender any firearms, per court records.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Oct. 2025

surrender

2 of 2 noun

• Their surrender was formalized in a treaty.
• They demanded an unconditional surrender.
• The clash was swift, the surrender swifter.
  — Kinsey Gidick, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
• If not, it’s just called surrender.
  — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2025
• The Pisces new moon asks for surrender.
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
• The age limit for surrender varies by state.
  — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
• This full moon is a gentle but firm push into surrender.
  — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 2 Nov. 2025
• There is a palpable sense of surrender in the air.
  — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• In that way, the piece becomes less about control and more about surrender.
  — Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• During the year, the spring/summer opens the doors to a spike in pet surrenders.
  — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
• Here are three key surrenders to make before the season ends.
  — Renessa Boley Layne, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• But one look was like a floral black hole of fabric—a note of surrender amid all the good cheer.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Oct. 2022
• James reminds us that strength can also look like surrender.
  — Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
• That would be a saddening surrender to might makes right.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
• Our choices are to fight our corner or surrender.
  — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
• But surrender isn’t about giving up.
  — Renessa Boley Layne, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• And so there is a nice kind of surrender to going back [to modeling].
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2024
• The surrender went into effect late at night.
  — USA Today, 6 May 2026
• The commission dropped its inquiry as part of the terms of the surrender.
  — Amber Gaudet, Charlotte Observer, 18 May 2026
• His surrender was a relief, but not to the millions who mourned Kirk.
  — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
• Though, in truth, the nuance and depth of the work on view speak more of engagement than of surrender.
  — Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
• Some witnesses said Brown had his hands up in surrender.
  — ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
• Some witnesses said Brown had his hands up in surrender.
  — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
• That surrender happened less than two months after the station’s box was blessed.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2025
• So my solution for the past two years has been to declare surrender at the outset.
  — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Putin’s primary goal right now is to force Ukraine’s surrender.
  — Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
• Still, the sale strikes me as incredibly sad, a loss, some sort of surrender to the inevitable.
  — Requiem For A Museum, Curbed, 1 June 2023
• Evans approached a white college student, who was kneeling in the street with his arms raised in surrender.
  — Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• This season already feels like one big, breathless surrender.
  — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• This season already feels like one big, breathless surrender.
  — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025