Sentences with 'succumbed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word succumbed and other words derived from it.
• « Nero (r. 54 - 68 CE) was another Julian who acquired a terrible historical reputation; although he was quite popular during his early years as emperor, he eventually succumbed to a Caligula-like tendency to have elite Romans (including his domineering mother) killed. »
• « Later Popes succumbed to the temptation to sell indulgences to raise revenue, especially as Renaissance-era Popes built up their own secular power and patronised the art and architecture associated with the Vatican. »
• « Less than two months earlier, her father had died of cancer of the urethra and prostate, and her mother had succumbed to ovarian cancer in 1972, at the age of 56. »