How to Use surrender in a Sentence
- The enemy finally surrendered after three days of fighting.
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By the half, the Lakers had surrendered 77 points to the Clippers.
—Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
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The Jaguars surrendered 10 or fewer points in five of those games.
—Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2024
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Then Christine surrenders to the warm grass and is brought up short by a smudge of pink that is and isn’t the dead Vivian.
—Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
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Seattle can still make the playoffs but surrenders a lot on the ground.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
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The Panthers have surrendered just 32 goals when Reinhart is on the ice at five-on-five.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2024
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On the 4th, Mars conjoins the South Node and surrenders its weapons and anger more completely.
—Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2023
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The initial trooper again asked Cobb to turn off his car, surrender his keys and exit the car.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
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Definitely kind of like surrendered to the whole thing and just put it out there.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
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Erik Menendez, who was out of the country at the time, surrendered to police days later.
—Natalie Morales, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2024
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Moreno, who had placed the franchise for sale at the end of the 2022 season only to change his mind, didn’t stay in baseball simply to surrender.
—Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
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The defeat at Las Vegas was a record-setter, the Chargers surrendering an all-time high in points for a game.
—Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
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Back out for the eighth, Cano surrendered a single to Grossman before a pair of groundouts advanced him to third.
—Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2023
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Police arrived at the scene and told Beck, who had gotten back into the Xterra, to surrender.
—oregonlive, 21 July 2023
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Playing with just 10 players, Portland surrendered a goal in the 59th minute.
—oregonlive, 13 May 2023
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That order to surrender has been placed on the agenda for the committee to address on Friday.
—Nick Valencia, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
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The teen, a student at a high school for academic achievers, surrendered after he was ordered to the ground, Davis said.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2023
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The deputy caught up to him nearby, though Zuniga-Sanchez did not surrender for hours, the deputy testified.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
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Two weeks later, Spain surrendered the city—and thus Cuba—to the Americans.
—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
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The dog was released as the man, who is Black, appeared to be surrendering after a chase earlier this month.
—Errol Barnett, CBS News, 24 July 2023
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Herold surrendered, leaving Booth alone inside the barn.
—Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
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Trump surrendered last Thursday at the Fulton County jail and was booked and processed as a first step in going to trial.
—Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
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More concerning is the offensive glass, where the Aztecs have already surrendered 25 in two games.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
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Japan would surrender to the United States in September 1945.
—Peter Englund, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
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The 33-year-old man surrendered after an hours-long standoff at the Carlsbad Village Inn, police said.
—David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
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The Royals bullpen surrendered five late runs as Lugo earned a no-decision.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
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The following day, Hunter surrendered to the Jackson Police Department on a charge of felony child abuse.
—Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
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Karabakh officials said their forces were outnumbered and had no choice but to surrender.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
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Florida will never, ever surrender to the woke mob because our state is where woke goes to die.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
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On the 30th of April, Hitler killed himself rather than surrender, effectively ending the war in Europe.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2022
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Though, in truth, the nuance and depth of the work on view speak more of engagement than of surrender.
—Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
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But one look was like a floral black hole of fabric—a note of surrender amid all the good cheer.
—Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Oct. 2022
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After that, the blacks could surround and siege King’s Landing and force the greens’ surrender.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Oct. 2022
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Over the weekend, the Department of Justice asked the judge in the case to schedule a date for Archer’s surrender to prison.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 1 Aug. 2023
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But his final outing saw the right-hander surrender three home runs in a May 17 loss to the White Sox.
—Joe Noga, cleveland, 21 July 2023
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While the musician shows no signs of surrender on the 17-track record, there are cracks in her armor.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2023
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Still, the sale strikes me as incredibly sad, a loss, some sort of surrender to the inevitable.
—Requiem For A Museum, Curbed, 1 June 2023
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And so there is a nice kind of surrender to going back [to modeling].
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2024
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So my solution for the past two years has been to declare surrender at the outset.
—Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
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Mini meatballs float around, fuzzy blobs of fregola sink to the bottom of the bowl, and shreds of kale give a limp wave of surrender—and so did I.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 28 Jan. 2023
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The negotiations are one-sided; the French, who hold all the cards, want surrender on their terms.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Nov. 2022
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Evans approached a white college student, who was kneeling in the street with his arms raised in surrender.
—Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
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The seasons of Lent and Easter bring thoughts of surrender and sacrifice.
—Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 22 Jan. 2023
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The rollout was rushed and clearly botched, but her panicky surrender compounds the error with a show of weakness.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
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The moment Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders is the moment this heartbreaking war ends.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 18 Mar. 2024
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In the late 1890s, Gov. Francis P. Fleming said a red cross be added to reduce the older flag’s appearance, which was simply white with the seal, to a flag of surrender.
—Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
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Sports transfers allowed The final rule change in which members voted to raise the white flag of surrender on transfers came in April 2017.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
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The moment Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders, is the moment this heartbreaking war ends.
—Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2024
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This instinct to flee rather than fight could lead to a quick surrender if faced with the aggressive and powerful cassowary.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
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Her savvy use of a white sheet to replace the Confederate flag created a makeshift flag of surrender.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2024
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And now anonymous surrender, i.e., safe haven law, is ensconced in every U.S. state.
—Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
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The boy’s surrender, though foolhardy, is an act of rebellion, of taking reckless chances and throwing caution to the wind.
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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There’s even a photo of Geronimo and his band after their surrender in 1886.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
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On August 24, Trump surrenders at the Fulton County jail where he is processed and released on bond.
—CNN, 13 Nov. 2023
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Voluntary surrender could be punished by up to 10 years in prison while looters could be given a penalty of up to 15 years.
—Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
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Police issued a shelter in place order for nearby residents and tried to convince the man to put down the rifle, come out of the home and surrender.
—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
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At the end of July, preliminary figures placed the portion of surrenders at 20%.
—Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2023
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Davila, who sentenced her in November, will set a new date for her surrender.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 17 May 2023
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On Thursday evening, Biden posted a fundraising link on X, seemingly with a wink to Trump’s surrender.
—Robert Higgs, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
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At Loikaw University in the city center, where more than a hundred army troops were barricaded, the rebels called for surrender.
—Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
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