How to Use cede in a Sentence

cede

verb
  • Russia ceded Alaska to the U.S. in 1867.
  • The area was ceded by treaty from the Osage tribe in 1808.
    Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The island was formally ceded to the British in the 1800s.
    Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 24 July 2023
  • Being forced to cede control is a big part of Lizzy's life too.
    Thomas Page, Cnn, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
  • And the boys of summer cede the spotlight to the gladiators of the gridiron.
    Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Twitter may have a new CEO, but Musk isn’t about to cede control.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • Talk shifted more to Xs and Os once Sankey ceded the stage to the football guys.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 17 July 2023
  • Apple cannot afford to cede the home to Alexa any further.
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 14 June 2024
  • The day after the city ceded to Brodeur’s request, the Senate passed its pre-emption of the ban.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • At this stage of his life, Wahlberg, 52, is happy to cede the spotlight to a furry friend.
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
  • By the summer of 2013, the regime had ceded control of most of northern Syria.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The Hoosiers ceded the higher ground and are battling against a very slippery slope.
    Justin Williams, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
  • But in mid-March they were forced to cede the town and retreat some 20 miles, even losing Pavlivka.
    New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • Both teams played their starters in the first half before ceding minutes to the reserves in the second half.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Her voice fit the bluesy, sultry song well, and Stapleton, a true pro at big-time duets, knew how to cede the stage.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 17 May 2024
  • The court agreed that the state House must cede to its counterparts in cases like Roberson's.
    Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Nadia heeds none of this and seems to cede control of her own story, losing Ruth in the process.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2022
  • But Branson, a showman as much as a businessman, is not one to cede the stage.
    Nicholas Schmidl, The New Yorker, 9 July 2021
  • Those gains have been ceded, but players insist the race is far from over.
    John Shipley, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2024
  • And there’s often pushback from those who don’t want to cede control.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2022
  • As the trail has grown, the adventurous trekkers of the start have ceded to a more diverse clientele, some of whom miss the mod cons.
    Clodagh Kinsella, Travel + Leisure, 19 Nov. 2024
  • One of the most powerful men in the NFL is open to ceding some of that power and declaring so publicly?
    Andrew Callahan, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Daylight was ceding time to darkness, and the sea ice was starting to advance.
    Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The company also announced Roberts and Kravis would cede their voting control of the firm by the end of 2026.
    Jonathan Ponciano, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • And so their son grew up, unwilling to cede his agency to anyone.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2023
  • In many ways, Netflix appeared to be the best positioned to weather the storm, and the least likely to cede to the demands of the Writers Guild.
    Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And ceding a sense of empowerment to improve the world to the ultra-wealthy is what keeps Wales up at night.
    Rachel M. Cohen, Vox, 17 Sep. 2024
  • There were also concerns about how much control the bill would cede to parents.
    Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2022
  • But will Preller cede what seems to be complete authority over the team?
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Mala won’t cede her knowledge of her husband or of life to the coercive tidiness of the trauma plot.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021

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