How to Use cession in a Sentence

cession

noun

• The law required cession of the land to the heirs.
• Meanwhile, there was no such She-cession in the UK, where employment fell less for females than for males.
  — CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
• The team brushed off a shaky start and early goal cession to rumble back for a 3-1 victory, highlighted by a pair of goals from rookie Daryl Dike.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• Indigenous people were adapting, while the United States won partial and patchy land cessions, a process accelerated by the War of 1812.
  — Caitlin Fitz, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2020
• Many of these groups had been adversaries before but took jointly to the street to denounce the cession of Egyptian territory and defend the people’s sovereignty over their homeland.
  — Jannis Grimm, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2018
• That conflict ended with the humiliating cession of more than half the nation’s territory to the United States, but López Obrador saw in it at least a few examples of valor.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 June 2012
• The other is from the perspective of my people, who have lived in Alaska for thousands of years, and for whom the anniversary of the cession brings mixed emotions, including immense loss but also optimism.
  — William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• The other is from the perspective of my people, who have lived in Alaska for thousands of years, and for whom the anniversary of the cession brings mixed emotions, including immense loss but also optimism.
  — William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• The first Indian cession within the Louisiana Territory established the mold.
  — Robert Lee, Slate Magazine, 1 Mar. 2017
• This evangelical script may not easily accommodate prospective Israeli attempts at rapprochement, or partial cession of sacred spaces.
  — Amy Erica Smith, Vox, 18 May 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024