Sentence example with the word 'succumbs'

succumbs

Last update: September 9, 2015

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If too closely packed, the soil particles present mechanical obstacles to growth; if too retentive of moisture, the root-hairs suffer, as already hinted; if too open or over-drained, the plant succumbs to drought.   [Please select]

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There are four of them; they industriously attack the caterpillar, which finally succumbs, assaulted before and behind.   [Please select]

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He maintained that gentle, yielding, unassertive character which succumbs quietly to pressure at one point, only to reappear silently and unobtrusively in another place.   [Please select]

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The insect succumbs then and there, without any other movement than wild convulsions.   [Please select]

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It certainly does mean war, but a mythical war--the war in which the hero, fighting against the monster, succumbs and sheds blood.   [Please select]

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It is confronted, however, by the censor, which is still active, and to the influence of which it now succumbs.   [Please select]

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After a period of disease lasting from one to three days the affected animal almost always succumbs.   [Please select]

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