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).
A calf that spends the early hours of life licking a dirty udder and hind legs of a cow trying to find a teat is more likely to succumb to disease than a calf in a clean environment that got an early feed of quality colostrum.
I also must report that I've visited France and no doubt succumbed to certain attempts to propagandize me.
Ireland was the first eurozone country to succumb to the slump. The Sun
They were immediately rushed to hospital where Amin succumbed to his injuries.
Inarus, the author of the revolt, was betrayed, and perished on the cross, and the whole of Egypt once more succumbed to the Persian yoke, save only that portion called the marshy or fenny parts (under the dominion of a prince named Amyrtaeus), protected by the nature of the soil and the proverbial valour of the inhabitants. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
Even your humble correspondent succumbed to the spirit of anarchy, but the response my "crudeness" provoked gives me a few suggestions for investigators chasing leads on the recent spate of criminal harassment toward progressive elements. Archive 2005-10-16
He slipped on an orange peel, fell, and succumbed to complications.
Temptation comes to all of us,whether or not we succumb depends on our ability to recognize its disguise,sometimes it arrives in a form of an old flame,flichering back to lift,or a new friend who could end up being so much more,or a young child who wakens feelings we didn't know we had.And so we give in to temptation all the while knowing come moring,we'll have to suffer the consequences.
She momentarily succumbs to the tendency to simplify irreducible complexities.
But they quickly succumb to the pleasures of curry and bangers and mash. Times, Sunday Times
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.
After taking native medications for 5 days, he developed fulminant liver failure and was readmitted to our center and, in spite of resuscitative and supportive measures, he succumbed to his illness.
His brother died of scarlet fever, many other villagers succumbed to asthma and diabetes.
Temptation comes to all of us,whether or not we succumb depends on our ability to recognize its disguise,sometimes it arrives in a form of an old flame,flichering back to lift,or a new friend who could end up being so much more,or a young child who wakens feelings we didn't know we had.And so we give in to temptation all the while knowing come moring,we'll have to suffer the consequences.
Newberry finally succumbed to another big hit, Alex Mason replacing him and leaving BJ Fowler as the line-out jumper.
A single gauge managed to record rainfall for 90 minutes before succumbing to waterlogging. Times, Sunday Times
They succumbed in laughter, and eventually gave up, and danced jive to the lively music.
-- In myxedema one of the cardinal symptoms is a persistently subnormal temperature and, though prone to infection, subjects of myxedema show but feeble febrile response and readily succumb. The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
Most of us are known to succumb to persuasion through the media.
Famous people succumb to their own fame. Times, Sunday Times
M. Ponsard, in his play on the subject, succumbed to the extent of making his final scene end with Galileo "frappant du pied la terre," and crying, "pourtant elle tourne. Watchers of the Sky
The city succumbed after only a short siege.
Slower choo-choos are less apt to succumb to heat kinks; after a 1998 accident in Texas, Union Pacific Railroad mandated that trains not exceed 10 mph through areas with known or suspected kinks.
The words and thoughts in Lewty's art never succumb to the urgent clip of 21st-century urban life but keep instead to an obsolete, invigoratingly slow pace.
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
Companies typically succumb to one of three broad weakest link scenarios. Times, Sunday Times
The Government should not succumb to pressure by vested interests and should make speed governors for vehicles compulsory, at the earliest.
Farmers have been succumbing to financial pressures in huge numbers. Times, Sunday Times
Has he succumbed to the pressure? Times, Sunday Times
While my senses succumbed to the Indian fire-eaters, I raced to watch the rickshaws and road shows.
He is amazed that Sonia has not succumbed to any of the three usual ways open for someone in her situation: the canal, the madhouse, or total submission to depravity.
Sandra succumbed to the disease, which had plagued her life for the past 13 years, last December.
After hours spent quelling the fire with cold water, ‘he succumbed to a fever so malign that in just a few days he expired in the icy embrace of death.’
A military source said: 'It is a case of the people succumbing to the training that they were doing. Times, Sunday Times
In extreme cases we see them succumb to the temptations of fame and wealth. Christianity Today
The term 'film noir' gets thoroughly redefined in Bela Tarr's The Man From London, a mystery story cloaked in such stygian darkness that some viewers may succumb to eye strain before its enigmas are unfolded," writes Jonathan Romney at Screen Daily. GreenCine Daily: Cannes. The Man From London.
Scores of carriageworkers had already succumbed to diseases brought on by working with the man-made fibre.
He had sliced open a mosquito bite while shaving, then rapidly succumbed to blood poisoning and pneumonia. Times, Sunday Times
We first vaccinated the kids on the 18th April 1995, but we did not know for two years, when the goats eventually kidded whether the vaccination had worked or not, and even then they may not succumb to the disease straight away.
The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.
A military source said: 'It is a case of the people succumbing to the training that they were doing. Times, Sunday Times
These equations will involve both a rate of change of the proportion of the population succumbing to disease, and some unknown parameters, which we will consider shortly.
The protracted photographic session seemed to be coming to an end just before everyone succumbed to frostbite. TICKLED PINK
The despotate of Epirus succumbed in 1449, the duchy of Athens in 1456; in 1453 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
He finds himself reluctantly succumbing to his suppressed passion.
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
However, the findings are a reminder of why now — more than ever — we must refuse to succumb to political apathy and laissez-faire demagoguery.
Yet of course, once he succumbed and looked, he saw only the wedge-shaped chamber in the gwerbret's broch, all grey and swimmy with shadows. A TIME OF WAR
While waging a gutsy campaign against liver disease, he was ambushed by stomach cancer and succumbed within a few months.
There is nothing in these data to indicate that a full-grown man in normal health, and with proper treatment, will succumb to crotaline poisoning unless the venom enters a vein, direct. The Poison Bugaboo
While the regime had a highly efficient and brutal system for purging class enemies, most people who died under Pol Pot's rule succumbed to starvation or disease, like Ta Rath's rather and sister.
It would be impossible to walk by without succumbing to a tub of mellow, unctuous olives, or a modestly priced, sit-down lunch (as opposed to leftovers in the fridge).
Balaam, the last representative of patriarchism, was required to curse the Jewish Church, just as it afterwards would not succumb to Christianity without a struggle (Nu Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Do not succumb to the temptation to reduce development time, stop time, or clearing time.
HOLMES: You're telling me that they kind of succumb to PR pressure? CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2008
It is no wonder that even up to our own times the human habitat has been the last bastion to succumb to the desacralizing process.
They were twelve hours covering the thirty versts, and at Katschuk Rezánov succumbed for two days, while Jón scoured the country in search of a telega; as sometimes happened there was a long stretch of country without snow, and sledges, by far the most comfortable method of travel in Siberia, could not be used. Rezánov
The production throughout the album in fact almost never succumbs to the easy crunk / dirty south clichés. Like the album itself, this is an interesting listen.
First there was a sizzle, and then, when the batter had succumbed to the intense heat from the gas flame below, only a few intermittent whistles escaped along with wisps of fragrant vapor.
He would not succumb to such an item.
Who but the dourest of indie-snob purists could fail to succumb to its heady delights?
He deludes himself into believing that he has not succumbed to radiation sickness because of some kind of inborn immunity, i.e. invincibility. Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Dreams From My Grandfather
She was no curtaintwitcher, like many round here, and despite the torrential flow of other people's business through what was not just her home but her business, she had never succumbed to the temptation to poke her snib in where it hadn't been invited. Quite Ugly One Morning
How do these people survive without succumbing to lung cancer and cirrhosis of the liver? Times, Sunday Times
Chiefs and rajas, sultans and potentates succumbed to western authority with no apparent regret on the part of their subjects.
Stepping back a generation, doctors were familiar with hospital wards full of patients succumbing to sepsis in the pre-penicillin era.
But even our ‘modernising’ government now seems to be succumbing to this anachronistic codswallop.
Scieh said the zero level of fatalities was ‘encouraging’, although there is no guarantee no one will succumb this year.
For many, the quality of life has deteriorated and they succumb to pressure.
The tunnies, torn and battered against submerged rocks, succumbed not long afterward, as did the squid. The Golden Torc
Toxicology experts testified that the animals had succumbed to carbon disulfide poisoning.
The desserts seem steadier, although they, too, succumb to major-league busyness, being garnished and furbelowed to a fare-thee-well.
As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. Archive 2009-08-01
His colleagues succumbed to the bowling of Tim Grey who took 6-41.
Such arguments only show the mental slavery to which these people have succumbed.
The injured were immediately rushed to hospital where Hamida succumbed to her injuries.
Many casualties succumbed hours after the artillery strike or as a result of treating the wounded or entering the affected area. Times, Sunday Times
The city succumbed after only a short siege.
Many churches and church members have succumbed to one of these scams. Christianity Today
He succumbs, and there is general rejoicing. Times, Sunday Times
Two more elephants are believed to have succumbed to the disease on Sunday.
I am disappointed that the seminary succumbed to the lure of media exposure in orchestrating this event.
So, before very long, the organdie butterflies and the flannel-trouser fifis gave in, succumbed, crushed once more beneath the stone-heavy passivity of resistance in the demonish peons. The Plumed Serpent
After years vowing that I'd never play golf, I finally succumbed to it.
My mother, so vital to the end, finally succumbs to heart disease.
We survived with just two till our son arrived and then succumbed to peer pressure and raised their strength to three.
In fact, one out of every 2.4 women succumbs to heart disease, making it the leading cause of death among women.
Many performers succumb to corpsing, and I have on occasion been known to set it up, while of course retaining the semblance of a consummate professional.
She began to parry and dodge their blazing fast attacks, but she was clearly outmatched and succumbed to their slashes and blows and was being pushed back.
So long as countries were committed to defending their exchange rate pegs, there was no possibility that they would succumb to policies of sustained inflation.
Within 24 hours, five members of the caretaker government had succumbed to public pressure to quit. Times, Sunday Times
His estranged guitarist, songwriting partner and soulmate since childhood, had succumbed to cocaine, aloof behaviour and rampant egomania.
Then they used scare tactics, telling the audience that fat people were apt to succumb to something called Sudden Death syndrome.
Chiefs and rajas, sultans and potentates succumbed to western authority with no apparent regret on the part of their subjects.
Were it not fur her, I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair.
Its main theme is not so much succumbing to vice as resisting it. The Times Literary Supplement
And no, my weakness was not in easily succumbing to her girlish charms.
Despite the efforts of local people to save her life, the girl succumbed to injuries.
Bausch never succumbs to trippy New Age stuff that this set might suggest, however, and instead often engages her players in urbane games with tables and chairs and other hallmarks of daily life incongruous to the deep blue sea. Archive 2007-11-01
This would be the signal for the withdrawal of the archducal protection from the pirates, who then, exposed to the vengeance of all whom they had plundered, must inevitably succumb in the unequal conflict that would ensue. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
What is truly dangerous is to succumb to the temptation to eat a complete meal - maybe consisting of soup, meat course and desert. Successful Fasting -the easy way to cleanse your body of its poisons
A five-piece of experimental popsters from Philadelphia, the band succumbs to the desire to throw you a curve just when you've warmed to their jaded, sunstroke-woozy pop songs.
Creatures that succumbed didn't rot; the dry heat drained their body fluids and mummified them. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era.
The couple had succumbed to a combination of infection and hypothermia.
Roses have an allure that is difficult to ignore, and having long ago succumbed to the charms of these velvet pretties, I now take some time each spring to revel in their plush petals.
Sometimes they succumb to greed and the herd mentality. DOT.CON
The dilemma about succumbing to grey gave her sleepless nights. Times, Sunday Times
Famous people succumb to their own fame. Times, Sunday Times
Strong partnerships can withstand these challenges but shaky ones rapidly succumb to pressure. Times, Sunday Times
And it was Hussein, after all, who installed as heir apparent the little-known and unseasoned Abdullah just before he succumbed to cancer.
No matter how hard we try to be spiritual, it's sensual pleasure we succumb to.
I have in the past succumbed to temptation, lured by attractive coloured labels.
She succumbed to an unexpected cerebral haemorrhage at the easel two weeks before the opening.
Exercise: At this time of year many people succumb to the blues. The Sun
A few men succumbed to her charm.
But he knew that he had one more duty to perform before he allowed himself to succumb to his craving for rest.
First Joey, his voice a mutant-goat bleat, succumbed to lymphoma in 2001.
Only when she reached the end of the long avenue and circled around among the squat black tents of the humbler folk did she succumb at last to temptation in the shape of a goblinesque little maiden with thick blonde braids and a pert scarlet hennin, who offered flagons of carved myrtlewood filled with a marvelous perfume distilled from forest flowers. The Golden Torc
She is a ladykiller who always seems to succumb to the temptation of lust while breaking hearts right and left. Joan E. Dowlin: The Unreal L Word
But its contents rapidly dispel any fears that this most entertainingly waspish of commentators succumbed to beatific mildness in his final years.
The underdogs reigned supreme as stars succumbed to fatigue
Many proclaimed Penn was a new man at 170-pounds and that he was well on course to securing either a third bout with champion Georges St-Pierre or a shot at the vacant strap, should the French-Canadian eventually succumb to the wishes of fans and dip his toes in middleweight waters. Elliot Worsell: BJ Penn -- What Next?
I succumbed to a little temptation and got myself one of those wireless thingamies, so my laptop now connects automatically to the internet without wires anywhere in the house.
My advice, if you permit, would be to consider avoiding succumbing to the natural human proclivity towards racism or even "revanchist" actions (for past, historically racist transgressions made by other groups - which you call "whites") and thereby refraining from posting entries - using strong language - just against any other outside groups indiscriminately, without solid considerations ... Home
Will they will stick to their ground and fight till the end, or succumb to the pressure?
The masseuse bathes my feet then unlocks a few facial pressure points while I succumb to the ambient flute music and scents of clove and ylang-ylang oil.
Many of those who die as a result of the disease succumb in their 30s or 40s.
It quickly succumbed to all kinds of influences, theatrical (commedia dell'arte, for example) and musical (the exotic harmonies and instrumentation of Eastern music, say); with the rise of professional singers, composers were irresistibly drawn to an exploration of the extreme possibilities of the human voice. 'Opera has never been more alive' | Simon Callow
She later succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at the Mayerthorpe Hospital.
For one to succumb in such fashion was careless, for the other to follow almost criminal. Times, Sunday Times
They're about how these characters succumb to these pressures and these influences very much like we all do in our lives.
The work is the definition of honest, trusting its material and endlessly accurate in its sense of the human condition without succumbing to bitterness or the maudlin.
Unfortunately, as expected, they quickly succumbed to light-driven damage; within five hours, the level of the photocurrent dropped to half its peak value. Ars Technica
The country has succumbed to violence. Times, Sunday Times
But they were not willing to see one acre of irrigated land succumb to the forces of nature, regardless of cost.
Both the players were rushed to a private hospital here where Jarnail Singh succumbed to his injuries.
As the ethnobotanist Wade Davis explains in The Rainbow and the Serpent, his scientific exploration of zombie death in Haiti, a mind conditioned from birth to believe in curses will succumb to a “self-fulfilling prophesy” when a taboo or spiritual code is broken. Spellbound
Being such an immature age, he also succumbed to the advances of other women while he was away, which ended the marriage after just two years.
Who most smartly twigged the resonance of the party invitation was probably the square-shouldered flat‑nosed puncher Quarry, a competent but inconsistent operator, and one who could usually be relied upon to succumb when it mattered most. The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed
Later, he succumbed to a massive heart attack, his family members said.
But now I wondered whether Cheney had succumbed to the phenomenon I'd observed among some secretaries of the Army: put a civilian in charge of professional military men and before long he's no longer satisfied with setting policy but wants to outgeneral the generals. Schwarzkopf
Julian Bennett the latest to succumb, which isn't ideal as we only have shuffling or reserve options to cover him. Through the seasons before us..
I'm not interested in succumbing to the pressure. The Sun
He lingered on for several months, finally succumbing to a series of strokes.
On the first night only two out of 48 remained at dinner, the rest having succumbed to the pitching roll of the boat.
The plaid shawl was not proof against the wind and rain of that biting November, and her lungs, so long her boast among asthmatical neighbours, succumbed to the heavy fogs that alternated with the gales and frosts. The Port of London Murders
The women broke into a wailing chant, swaying backward and forward in abandonment, while one by one the men succumbed to the excitement till only Sime remained. THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
According to eyewitness, a grenade exploded in the main market causing injuries to at least 15 people, out of whom two succumbed to their injuries in the hospital.
In a tremendous sequence, the archaeologic team appear to succumb to mass insanity as a result of exposure to the shaman's remains and undertake to revive him while getting high on his stash. Archive 2009-07-05
It succumbed to an accommodationist position, which inevitably led to its end.
Divorced from the program of revolutionary Marxism, cadres immersed in the mass movement eventually succumb to opportunism.
I'm not interested in succumbing to the pressure. The Sun
I find it really depressing that a city as diverse as New York has succumbed to this kind of corporate takeover.
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
Thomas Cech and his group initially attributed the activity of their Tetrahymena RNA to a protein contaminant, and they only slowly succumbed to the weight of the accumulated data that argued for the RNA. Sidney Altman - Banquet Speech
A few years later, she refused to see The Miniver Story, a 1950 sequel even weepier than its predecessor, in which Greer Garson succumbs to cancer. Mrs. Miniver
People can succumb very easily to these Etonian attitudes. Times, Sunday Times
A less resilient person would have succumbed to depression and retired from music and public life.
Rustic, nakedly beautiful and breathless, part Fahey as it dustily scratches away at your resistance until you can do nothing but succumb to its incandescent inner passion.
The children then succumb to diseases like tuberculosis, pneumonia and meningitis.
Surely she has also succumbed to pressure? Times, Sunday Times
The strong bond that forms between owner and pet means that when one succumbs to a serious illness the other may become very depressed. Times, Sunday Times
How do these people survive without succumbing to lung cancer and cirrhosis of the liver? Times, Sunday Times
After an artillery bombardment lasting several days the town finally succumbed.
At the same time, she deftly sidesteps the temptation of the Oriental picturesque, to which numerous other authors on this subject have succumbed.
She's a singer who takes a lot of artistic risks while never succumbing to gimmickry and pandering.
Succumbing to the hype, I thought the film was going to be a thoughtful treatment of a serious issue.
He had slushy ferric salts succumbing to their own deliquescence.
Eventually these embryos succumbed due to the lack of correct blood flow with two hearts pumping into the same set of blood vessels.
How do these people survive without succumbing to lung cancer and cirrhosis of the liver? Times, Sunday Times
Further, the Premier is appreciative of the fact that, to date, no one has succumbed to the actions being recommended by this user.
It resembled a cannonball which had succumbed to a parasitic yellow grass. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
In a 1992 guide she wrote for the national MSA about how to establish a 'daw'ah' table to attract non-Muslims to the faith, she talks about the danger of succumbing to Western pressure to 'water down' Islam to make it fit a Western perspective. Bloggers.Pakistan
He received another standing ovation when he finally succumbed, the warmth evident yet again. Times, Sunday Times
Yet of course, once he succumbed and looked, he saw only the wedge-shaped chamber in the gwerbret's broch, all grey and swimmy with shadows. A TIME OF WAR
All the injured were admitted to a nearby hospital, where Khatoon's grand-daughter and another villager identified as Hemant succumbed. Daily News & Analysis
We tend to forget how often we have succumbed as a nation to a pervasive individualism that stigmatizes poor children and blames their families.
Students would not succumb to their desire to insincerely reproduce what their teachers profess.
In the end, the struggle against the central powers exhausted and strangled the impulse to freedom associated with growing equality, and the middle classes succumbed to being administered.
This is surprising, for contemporary opinion held that women as well as men succumbed to intemperance.
So long as countries were committed to defending their exchange rate pegs, there was no possibility that they would succumb to policies of sustained inflation.
Abdul Kader, the tailor who had attached himself to me, as a man ready-handed at all things, from mending a pair of pants, making a delicate entremets, or shooting an elephant, but whom the interior proved to be the weakliest of the weakly, unfit for anything except eating and drinking — almost succumbed on this march. How I Found Livingstone
That scene at the end of the movie Elizabeth, when she goes 'alright, f--k it, I'm going to succumb to my destiny and be queen' and she becomes unbeautiful. Fear And Clothing: Cintra Wilson's Fierce Fashion Prowess
Bo managed to get past the bar without succumbing to nipping quickly through it's heavy wood doors.
This is pursued undoubtedly in accordance with the old idea that the punishment should be commensurate with the sin and bear a sym - bolic relationship to it; those succumbing to vanity and sensuous lust, and with them their seducers, the min - strels, are punished with the instruments of their sins. MUSIC AS A DEMONIC ART
As I started work, it was moving to read some of the dedications, from many whose mothers or best friends had succumbed to breast, or other, cancers.
Aging aside, lifestyle will go a long way toward determining whether you'll succumb to this dread disease.
Let's say that as an alien you arrive in your space-ship, have a bumpy landing and succumb to amnesia.

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