Example Sentences

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This will subdue the temperature on some of the beaches in counties Antrim and Down.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2023

Officials hope the rain will subdue the fire until finally snow snuffs it out later in the year.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2022

Oil at a five-year low and slowing overseas markets will subdue prices in the production chain that feed into the cost of living.

From Los Angeles Times

Man will subdue the primordial jungle, for example, with a G.M. machine a couple of hundred yards long.

From Time Magazine Archive

I will chase the deer, I will subdue the whale, resistless as the frost of darkness, and un- wearied as the summer sun.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson by Johnson, Samuel