succumb

How To Use succumb In A Sentence

• I took myself offline for a couple of days - the ole bod has decided it has had enough and succumbed to a flu-like thing.
• In art, the lure of anecdote always presents serious risks, and a good deal of nineteenth century American art succumbed to that drive to explain and amuse.
• He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Stewart's pigeon house almost succumbed under a drift six feet high, and half the pigeons escaped where the weight of sand forced an opening in the galvo.
• Mugabe vowed he would not "succumb" to pressure to enter into dialogue with the MDC. ANC Daily News Briefing
• In his provocative work, Clichés To Live By And The Death Of The Sixties, Anaxamander O'Flaherty, a necro-ethnolinguist at the University of Altamont, suggests that the expression, "Everything is everything," succumbed to a natural death brought on by such factors as over-utilization, deterioration of relevance, and lack of adaptability to altered states of reality vis-à-vis the American experience. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
• Most patients succumb when the diaphragm and rib muscles become paralyzed, and breathing becomes impossible.
• The deer, commonly known as chital, were suffering from suspected pneumonia and succumbed on January 16 and 17, they said, adding despite best efforts the animals died within two days after contracting the disease. The Times of India
• He survived a near fatal heart attack and subsequent cardiac surgery, only to succumb to motor neurone disease.
• What we do need is a sense of justice that doesn't succumb to moral purity or compromise with political power (and today, that means spinmeisters more than the tyrants).