subdue

Example Sentences

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According to the incident report, an unspecified number of people tried to subdue him and eventually let him go “in hope that he would leave.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

They are just data brokers doing business, they say, and it’s not their fault if what they gather and sell is used to subdue and surveil people.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026

As a victim of increasingly effective gunnery, Arundel also epitomized another development that would expedite the end of England’s sporadic efforts to subdue the rival realm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

If they can subdue a dangerous, if tired, Argentina side next weekend, that would be 11 successive wins for England and only one defeat in 2025.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

I felt pain, and then I felt ire; and then I felt a determination to subdue her—to be her mistress in spite both of her nature and her will.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë