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.
• By the half, the Lakers had surrendered 77 points to the Clippers.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• The Jaguars surrendered 10 or fewer points in five of those games.
  — Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2024
• Then Christine surrenders to the warm grass and is brought up short by a smudge of pink that is and isn’t the dead Vivian.
  — Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• Seattle can still make the playoffs but surrenders a lot on the ground.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• The Panthers have surrendered just 32 goals when Reinhart is on the ice at five-on-five.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2024
• On the 4th, Mars conjoins the South Node and surrenders its weapons and anger more completely.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2023
• The initial trooper again asked Cobb to turn off his car, surrender his keys and exit the car.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
• Definitely kind of like surrendered to the whole thing and just put it out there.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
• Erik Menendez, who was out of the country at the time, surrendered to police days later.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2024
• Moreno, who had placed the franchise for sale at the end of the 2022 season only to change his mind, didn’t stay in baseball simply to surrender.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• The defeat at Las Vegas was a record-setter, the Chargers surrendering an all-time high in points for a game.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• Back out for the eighth, Cano surrendered a single to Grossman before a pair of groundouts advanced him to third.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2023
• Police arrived at the scene and told Beck, who had gotten back into the Xterra, to surrender.
  — oregonlive, 21 July 2023
• Playing with just 10 players, Portland surrendered a goal in the 59th minute.
  — oregonlive, 13 May 2023
• That order to surrender has been placed on the agenda for the committee to address on Friday.
  — Nick Valencia, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• The teen, a student at a high school for academic achievers, surrendered after he was ordered to the ground, Davis said.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2023
• The deputy caught up to him nearby, though Zuniga-Sanchez did not surrender for hours, the deputy testified.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• Two weeks later, Spain surrendered the city—and thus Cuba—to the Americans.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
• The dog was released as the man, who is Black, appeared to be surrendering after a chase earlier this month.
  — Errol Barnett, CBS News, 24 July 2023
• Herold surrendered, leaving Booth alone inside the barn.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• Trump surrendered last Thursday at the Fulton County jail and was booked and processed as a first step in going to trial.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
• More concerning is the offensive glass, where the Aztecs have already surrendered 25 in two games.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• Japan would surrender to the United States in September 1945.
  — Peter Englund, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• The 33-year-old man surrendered after an hours-long standoff at the Carlsbad Village Inn, police said.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023

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surrender

2 of 2 noun

• Their surrender was formalized in a treaty.
• They demanded an unconditional surrender.
• 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
• 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
• After that, the blacks could surround and siege King’s Landing and force the greens’ surrender.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Oct. 2022
• Over the weekend, the Department of Justice asked the judge in the case to schedule a date for Archer’s surrender to prison.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• But his final outing saw the right-hander surrender three home runs in a May 17 loss to the White Sox.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 21 July 2023
• While the musician shows no signs of surrender on the 17-track record, there are cracks in her armor.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2023
• 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
• And so there is a nice kind of surrender to going back [to modeling].
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2024
• So my solution for the past two years has been to declare surrender at the outset.
  — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Mini meatballs float around, fuzzy blobs of fregola sink to the bottom of the bowl, and shreds of kale give a limp wave of surrender—and so did I.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 28 Jan. 2023
• The negotiations are one-sided; the French, who hold all the cards, want surrender on their terms.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Nov. 2022
• 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
• The seasons of Lent and Easter bring thoughts of surrender and sacrifice.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 22 Jan. 2023
• The rollout was rushed and clearly botched, but her panicky surrender compounds the error with a show of weakness.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
• The moment Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders is the moment this heartbreaking war ends.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 18 Mar. 2024
• In the late 1890s, Gov. Francis P. Fleming said a red cross be added to reduce the older flag’s appearance, which was simply white with the seal, to a flag of surrender.
  — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
• Sports transfers allowed The final rule change in which members voted to raise the white flag of surrender on transfers came in April 2017.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• The moment Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders, is the moment this heartbreaking war ends.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2024
• This instinct to flee rather than fight could lead to a quick surrender if faced with the aggressive and powerful cassowary.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Her savvy use of a white sheet to replace the Confederate flag created a makeshift flag of surrender.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2024
• And now anonymous surrender, i.e., safe haven law, is ensconced in every U.S. state.
  — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
• The boy’s surrender, though foolhardy, is an act of rebellion, of taking reckless chances and throwing caution to the wind.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• There’s even a photo of Geronimo and his band after their surrender in 1886.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
• On August 24, Trump surrenders at the Fulton County jail where he is processed and released on bond.
  — CNN, 13 Nov. 2023
• Voluntary surrender could be punished by up to 10 years in prison while looters could be given a penalty of up to 15 years.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• Police issued a shelter in place order for nearby residents and tried to convince the man to put down the rifle, come out of the home and surrender.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• At the end of July, preliminary figures placed the portion of surrenders at 20%.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2023
• Davila, who sentenced her in November, will set a new date for her surrender.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 17 May 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024