How to Use succumb in a Sentence

succumb

verb

• They will pressure you, and you must try not to succumb.
• Now it, too, is succumbing to the outbreak of the new .
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2020
• The doctor who treats him soon succumbs to the same ailment and dies.
  — Jeanne Jakle, ExpressNews.com, 24 Mar. 2020
• This is more than three times the number of those who succumb to malaria.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2019
• Saints teams of recent past would have succumbed to those mishaps.
  — Michael Democker, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• Broom is the second death-row inmate in Ohio to succumb to the virus.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 31 Dec. 2020
• Did the children succumb first, and the parents waited at their sides?
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• Lee falter in his steady volume of fire and succumb to his wounds.
  — Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 10 Nov. 2020
• Even dogs conditioned to this kind of weather can succumb to the cold.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2020
• And be this example to her the doesn’t succumb to these feelings.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 July 2023
• After six months or so in the womb of the cave, Flamini succumbed to its rhythms.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
• And some are succumbing to the temptations of wide-open roads.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2020
• The trees did not simply succumb to old age, the researchers believe.
  — Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, 12 June 2018
• The President was right to walk away rather than succumb to their...
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2020
• With so many tough games, the Cougars will have to make sure to stay healthy and not succumb to injuries.
  — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021
• And even if one of them did succumb to a scratch, the distressed finish would neatly hide it.
  — Joanna Linberg, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Now, at last and in style, United has succumbed to the future.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• The land is redolent in blame and rage and a sense that our defining principles have succumbed to myth.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 4 July 2019
• Some people were consumed by flames, others succumbed to the fumes and smoke.
  — Elisa Neckar, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• Be more clever than Trump, and don’t succumb to the nastiness.
  — Max Cea, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2019
• Then both of them are bitten by zombies and succumb to the zombie outbreak.
  — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 11 June 2020
• The goal, Brown said, is to not succumb to the emotional highs and lows within a game.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
• But Patil is not willing to let her students succumb to doom and gloom.
  — Sabrina Toppa, Time, 8 June 2022
• Brown was shot twice in the back and ultimately succumbed to his injuries.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• But Lynch’s unit did not succumb to the mounting pressure.
  — Jack Carney, Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2018
• Academics who succumb to the sugar rush of activism lose their sense of balance.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• Japan had somehow succumbed in the most painful way possible.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 4 July 2018
• Mel and Sue will always be there for the baker who succumbs to pressure.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 June 2018
• In the play, the poor guy succumbs to prophecy — fated to be killed by somebody already dead.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 12 July 2018
• Taufiq says his day starts with a prayer for his and his team's safety -- and ends with one for those who succumb to the virus.
  — Akanksha Sharma, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 26 Apr 2024