Example Sentences

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I am fully conscious that I am succumbing to influences over which I have no control.

From Hunger by Hamsun, Knut

But it is an honorable defeat—it is hard work to which I am succumbing.

From Andreas Hofer by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)