Make a clean breast of

Usage examples of conceding.

Not that Penny used unfair means, she did not even shed tears-not that I laid a finger on her-but I found myself conceding points, and presently there were no more points to concede.

I had already canned two five-minute speeches for grand network, one magnanimously accepting victory, the other gallantly conceding defeat.

The younger man gave him a dubious look, but finally spread his hands, conceding the point.

He insisted that the iridium had been deposited by volcanic action even while conceding in a newspaper interview that he had no actual evidence of it.

The following year the Geological Society of Edinburgh passed a resolution conceding that there might be some general merit in the theory but that certainly none of it applied to Scotland.

Do you prefer a reprimand leavened by my conceding I pro­voked you, or castration and death, Tribune?

Or he could rein his steaming horses violently back, let Scortius go by, and veer around behind the other driver, effectively conceding defeat with but a single lap to go.

He moved slowly and unhurriedly, conceding neither to haste nor urgency, masterful in his dignity.

Despite the urgency of the circumstances, Hunt was unable to prevent his voice from echoing the cynicism that he presumed he was being heard with, and while he forced himself to persevere with the help of Murray and Nixie, he found himself conceding inwardly that he had already written off his own cause.