throwing in the towel

Example Sentences

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It won’t end in the next couple of weeks, if you are banking on the Iranians throwing in the towel.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Also of note, while investors were back to questioning AI plays on Thursday, strategists said that doesn’t mean people have been wholesale throwing in the towel on tech.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025

There's still a long way to go this season and it is difficult to envisage the 33-time Bundesliga winners throwing in the towel just yet allowing Leverkusen to canter home.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2024

How about throwing in the towel for this season and prepare for next season with trades and draft picks?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2024

The Wood Hills Literary Society had been studying them for weeks, and never since his first entrance into intellectual circles had Cuthbert Banks come nearer to throwing in the towel.

From The Clicking of Cuthbert by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)