Surrendering
[sə'rendərɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surrender
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Examples
- She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- This does not support my view of his reasons for selecting the day he did for surrendering. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Presently, Xerxes saw that some of his broken ships were surrendering. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then suddenly surrendering to something, to the luxury of going into unreality, he said, Let us talk of Madrid and of us in Madrid. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The much talked of surrendering of Lee's sword and my handing it back, this and much more that has been said about it is the purest romance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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