The verb “submitting” comes from submit, meaning to present something for consideration, approval, or judgment. It can also mean yielding to authority or a situation. Writers use “submitting” in both formal and figurative ways—from handing in a manuscript to giving way under pressure. The examples below show how the word appears in authentic sentences, drawn from real books and essays.
Real Examples for Submitting
“You mean to say that you will cross thirty without submitting to arrest?” he almost shouted.
Source: Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs
16 words, 93 characters
You cannot pass it without submitting to the humiliation of calling yourself Mr. Chamberlain.
Source: The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
14 words, 94 characters
I trust I give no offence to the companion of my youth, in submitting this proposition to his cooler judgement?
Source: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
20 words, 111 characters
Or were they simply fools or cowards, submitting blindly, because they had not the wit nor the will to do otherwise?
Source: King Coal by Upton Sinclair
21 words, 116 characters
He had no love for authority, and certainly not the slightest intention of submitting to the domination of an ordinary Swede sailor.
Source: The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
22 words, 132 characters
She would impose her will, but her will would be only that a person or two shouldn’t lose a benefit by not submitting if they could be made to submit.
Source: The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
30 words, 150 characters
In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 158 characters
She was as equipped in this particular as Strether was the reverse, and it made an opposition between them which he might well have shrunk from submitting to if he had fully suspected it.
Source: The Ambassadors by Henry James
34 words, 187 characters
I knew that I was a good officer and sailor, and I didn’t propose submitting to degradation and discharge because a lot of old, preglacial fossils had declared over two hundred years before that no man should cross thirty.
Source: Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs
39 words, 222 characters
All in the forecastle presently signified their intention of submitting, and, ascending one by one, were pinioned and then thrown on their backs, together with the first six—there being in all, of the crew who were not concerned in the mutiny, twenty-seven.
Source: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
43 words, 258 characters
The younger of the other men, it afterwards appeared, was most in his element at the piano; so that they had coffee and comic songs upstairs—the gentlemen, temporarily relinquished, submitting easily in this interest to Mrs. Lowder’s parting injunction not to sit too tight.
Source: The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
45 words, 276 characters
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