surrender

Example Sentences

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"Russia is 10 times our size. But still we can't surrender."

From BBC

And we’ll never really know what she surrendered to lock that picture in our collective hearts and memories so completely and wonderfully.

From Salon

Having nowhere to go, she surrendered to impossible and applied for the job at our family’s store, where she was hired because Olka sewed like she did everything in life, with full intensity and effort.

From Literature

Kristof says of Ursula that she “charts her course in full light with eyes wide open, and still she chooses danger. Chooses — over and over — not to surrender.”

From Los Angeles Times

It would involve persuading the big-market teams still benefiting from their local TV deals, such as the Dodgers, to surrender control of those rights to MLB.

From The Wall Street Journal