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
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
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
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
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