Use "ceding" in a sentence

1. As indicated above, such programs also featured a wise and ―knowing‖ mother who, although ceding ―authority‖ to the father, knew when it was the right moment to step in and run interference for her children…

2. Venezia had made peace with the Ottomans by acknowledging the latter’s sovereignty over the lands they had conquered and ceding to them Scutari, whose garrison had held out against repeated attacks

3. For PETA devotees to absorb for themselves the violence of nature on the loose while ceding the ethical high ground to its four-legged friends is an interesting artifice

4. “Yes,” says the mist, its voice sounding fainter, the red magic ceding to pink

5. The second minor success, if selling one"s assets because of need can be so termed, was the ceding of our shop in Alexandria

6. A dawn that was not welcome, ceding its grayness to sunlight, to noise in the street, to Karima's arrival and her comings and goings

7. Will it not be in the power of the new State to insist on their right to jurisdiction over the territory, at least as far west as the Colorado, and to prevent the United States from ceding any part of it? For instance, sir, the United States may wish, as we have taken Florida as far as the Perdido, subject to future negotiation, to make this arrangement: to cede to Spain a certain proportion west for East Florida