Example Sentences

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But the more transmissible omicron variant has changed the equation, and one by one the island nations have been succumbing to COVID-19.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2022

Los Angeles’s old-school kosher delis, much like New York City’s, have been succumbing one by one for years, a die-off attributed in part to real estate costs but also changing consumer appetites.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2016

Berdych and Ljubicic may have been succumbing in the heat today, but Sam and I soldiered on, from taco stall to hamburger stand.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2010

Others, including some astute corporations, have been succumbing with alarming frequency to overwhelming pressures and strains that have caused them to spin out of control like De Lorean.

From Time Magazine Archive