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How to use submission in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Submission means the act of submitting or yielding; surrender. Example: “Any submissions received after Friday will have marks deducted for lateness.”

Examples of submission by meaning

nounThe act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work.

  • Any submissions received after Friday will have marks deducted for lateness.

nounA submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.

  • He used overhooks to block the punches, but he didn't seem to know any submissions off the overhooks.2005, Eddie Bravo, Jiu-jitsu Unleashed, page 12

nounA subset or component of a mission.

  • The commander would have to communicate to his operational planners his intent — how he wanted to fight the battle and what missions and submissions were vital to achieving what the corps order had defined as missions for the division.1999, James J. Cooke, The All-Americans at War: The 82nd Division in the Great War, 1917-1918, page 69

More sentences with submission

  • In all the submissions, they found four papers that were clearly worth publishing and another dozen almosts.From the entry almost
  • I have no time right now because of an impending paper submission deadline.From the entry impending
  • Eventually, each of the countries in turn would be brought to submission by the invading force.From the entry in turn
  • The appellant made her submissions to the court.From the entry appellant
  • Oliveira holds multiple UFC records, notably the most submission wins in the organization's history at 17, most finishes at 21 and most bonuses at 21.From the entry finish
  • Dressing these systems in the robes of the divine is how we ritualize our submission to them.2026 January 22, Unattributed, “The Rise of Divine Machinery”, in Etheria. From the entry divine machinery
  • The norm is submission to the supposed iron laws of technological inevitability that brook no impediment.2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 13, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. From the entry brook
  • In his submission to the UN, Heyns points to the experience of drones.2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6. From the entry use
  • I have categories within subcategories because I get so many submissions about poop and potty training.2013 April 2, CNN Living Staff, “Beware the parental overshare”, in CNN. From the entry subcategory
  • The GTbroker interact with the Globus resources to perform job submission.2009, Frédéric Magoulès, Fundamentals of Grid Computing: Theory, Algorithms and Technologies, page 20. From the entry broking
  • OMB's November 15 deadline for the PAR submission is earlier than the statutory deadline.2006, David M. Walker, Performance Budgeting: PART Focuses Attention on Program Performance, But More Can Be Done to Engage Congress…. From the entry accelerated
  • I am a 36yo male available for watersports, hardsports, submission, spanking, gangbang only with ladies.2003, marcusderossi, “male available for extreme movies, videos”, in uk.adverts.personals (Usenet). From the entry hardsport
  • 'Your Worships, I have a submission to put before the court.1999, Val McDermid, A Place of Execution, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 209. From the entry worship
  • Redhandedness is also an instrument a contractor employs to keep us in submission.1971, Report: Nigeria Board of Inquiry into the Affairs of the Amalgamated Dockworkers Transport and General Workers' Union, page 32. From the entry redhandedness
  • His submission is that he is of Mongolian extraction and irresponsible for his actions.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry all there
  • It is to be feared that even this slight submission by the lofty Mr.1913, Hearst's Magazine - Volume 23, Issues 4-6, page 831. From the entry wrongwise
  • He wrote on Twitter that the submissions were largely “driven by ‘side hustle’ experts making claims of easy money with ChatGPT.”2023 February 23, Michael Levenson, quoting Neil Clarke, “Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories”, in The…. From the entry side hustle
  • An act of trust and willing submission.2021, Joey W. Hill, chapter 1, in At Her Service: A Mistresses of the Board Room Novel, Story Witch Press, →ISBN. From the entry dom-drop
  • If a submitter says, “This person never usually overshares,” I’ll take that into consideration and might not run the submission.2013 April 2, CNN Living Staff, “Beware the parental overshare”, in CNN. From the entry overshare
  • In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue.2008 March 25, Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian. From the entry doer
  • Nobody came on to the movie camera—wrapped it in a bear hug and wrestled it to submission—like Betty Hutton.2007 March 31, Richard Corliss, “When Betty Got Frank”, in Time, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2010. From the entry indomitable
  • Having failed for years to outhandle and outfinesse the BMW, the competition has been trying to hammer it into submission.2007 June 3, Lawrence Ulrich, “A Grand Opening for BMW’s Quick-Tanning Machine”, in New York Times. From the entry outfinesse
  • Mujra is symbolic of total submission before a royal patron.2006, Martha Feldman, Bonnie Gordon, editors, The Courtesan's Arts, Oxford, page 322. From the entry mujra
  • To collect data for this study a submission was made to SAPOL′s Officer in Charge of Policy and Project Services.2005, Laurence J. Alison, The Forensic Psychologist′s Casebook, page 126. From the entry SAPOL
  • After reading the submission guidelines for various e-zines and print markets, I've found a wide variety of "rights" listed.2003, Tina Morgan, Know Your Rights, Fiction Factor: The online magazine for fiction writers. From the entry e-zine
  • The second form is the form found in this submission.2002 August, Ailionóra inghean uí Mhurchadha (of Calontir), August 2002 - scaly vs papellony. From the entry papellony
  • I was originally into plain old bondage, but have found that both submission and painplay are things that I can eroticize.2000 December 24, Sockermom9 [username], “Re: Psycology^([sic]) of BDSM”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet). From the entry painplay
  • Every encounter with friend or foe, every clash with or submission to authority bears the perverse traces of family romance.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry family romance
  • Having given up her good judgment, in favour of blind submission to a love she mispledged, folly is inevitable.1981, Vincent Cuccaro, The Humanism of Ludovico Ariosto, page 209. From the entry mispledge
  • At the submission to sufficient facts in Lowell District Court, an agreement was reached between the prosecution and the defense.1976 August 14, “Chelmsford Police Net Another”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 1. From the entry continuance
  • Once again, we encounter the theme of domination and submission.1974, Thomas S[tephen] Szasz, chapter 11, in The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry Magna Charta
  • The Federal Government subpœnaed over fifty witnesses, but many of these were relieved of testifying by the submission of documents.1942 May–June, “U.S.A. Pullman Monopoly Opposed”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130. From the entry subpoena
  • The Turkish sulṭān was mentioned in the khuṭba it is true, but dependence was not expressed in any form indicating submissions.1934, A[dolf] Grohmann, “Wāḥidī”, in M[artijn] Th[eodoor] Houtsma, A[rent] J[an] Wensinck, H[amilton] A[lexander] R[osskeen] Gibb, W[illi]…. From the entry sulṭān
  • In truth he was the type of man who is spoilt by the submission of weaker people than himself.1929, Edgar Wallace, “The Tyrant of the House”, in The Iron Grip, London: George Newnes. From the entry tyrannize
  • But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty.1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 3, in Main Street. From the entry peasantry
  • If its submission is approved, it would not be the first time TfL has taken over services from a train operating company.2025 October 15, David Stubbings, “News: TfL submits business case to DfT for transfer of Northern City Line services”, in RAIL, number…. From the entry first time
  • A tense dynamic in which the virtuous believer is patronizingly positioned as morally correct, thus thrusting the nonvirtuous nonbeliever into shame and (possibly) submission.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 17. From the entry nonvirtuous

Meaning of submission

  1. noun The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.
  2. noun The act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work.
  3. noun The thing which has been submitted.

Full definition of submission

Questions about submission in a sentence

How do you use submission in a sentence?
Submission is used as a noun. For example: “Any submissions received after Friday will have marks deducted for lateness.”
What is a short sentence with submission?
“An act of trust and willing submission.”
What does submission mean?
Submission means the act of submitting or yielding; surrender.

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