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surrender - use in sentences
Object
- sovereignty: There will, of course, be inevitable clashes between global standards and local diversity, between autonomy and surrendering sovereignty.
- lease: However, we do not have to let you surrender the lease.
- abbey: Abbot Richard Contour surrendered the abbey in July 1539.
- tenancy: She should supply you with a written and dated letter stating that she hereby agrees to surrender the tenancy forthwith.
- possession: Bircham was surrendering possession like nobodies business; this was a match that was crying out for the passing ability of Langley.
Converse of object
- negotiate: As the only officer in town, he had little choice but to negotiate the surrender of the garrison of heavily armed SS troops.
Preposition: at
- discretion: The people of the town, seized with terror, offered to surrender at discretion.
Adjective modifier
- unconditional: Once the line is crossed, it becomes a de facto fight to the finish with no alternative except unconditional surrender.
- abject: Only slightly better than abject surrender the home side were dismissed for 125 in the 53rd over.
- craven: First, a craven surrender to the public sector unions on the retirement age.
- Japanese: In August 1945, she anchored in Tokyo Bay and was present during the signing of the Japanese surrender.
- eventual: If anything, the family as haven grates a little in its eventual surrender to the apparently inevitable.
- partial: Points of interest 1. Partial surrender of registration; effective date.
Modifies a noun
- monkey: Cheese eating surrender monkeys, good. [ And there's no point kidding the French... they had an Empire once.. .
Modifying Another Word
- unconditionally: You either force your government to surrender unconditionally to every demand we make, or we'll slaughter these children.
- voluntarily: Visitors will be asked to voluntarily surrender any drugs detected by the dogs.
Preposition: of
- sovereignty: They will ask for the keys, for the surrender of sovereignty.
- veto: The Labor Government is quite wrong to associate support for the continuing surrender of the British veto in EU policy matters with patriotism.
- lease: Lambert Smith Hampton ( LSH ) successfully secured the surrender of a long lease on behalf of Novell.
- tenancy: A notice to determine a periodic tenancy is not in my view equivalent to the assignment or surrender of that tenancy.
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