How to Use cession in a Sentence

cession

noun
  • The law required cession of the land to the heirs.
  • It’s being called the next she-cession.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, there was no such She-cession in the UK, where employment fell less for females than for males.
    — CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
  • By early 2021, roughly two and a half million women had left the labor force, in what became known as a she-cession.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The team brushed off a shaky start and early goal cession to rumble back for a 3-1 victory, highlighted by a pair of goals from rookie Daryl Dike.
    — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Roche predicted that central banks would continue to raise interest rates over the next six to nine months which in turn would hurt stocks, reduce economic growth and help to precipitate his war-cession.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 20 June 2022
  • Many of these groups had been adversaries before but took jointly to the street to denounce the cession of Egyptian territory and defend the people’s sovereignty over their homeland.
    — Jannis Grimm, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Polls show that a minority of Ukrainians support a peace plan that includes territorial cession, although support for such an outcome is growing.
    — Olivier Kempf, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The other is from the perspective of my people, who have lived in Alaska for thousands of years, and for whom the anniversary of the cession brings mixed emotions, including immense loss but also optimism.
    — William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, The Conversation, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Indigenous people were adapting, while the United States won partial and patchy land cessions, a process accelerated by the War of 1812.
    — Caitlin Fitz, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2020
  • This evangelical script may not easily accommodate prospective Israeli attempts at rapprochement, or partial cession of sacred spaces.
    — Amy Erica Smith, Vox, 18 May 2018
  • That conflict ended with the humiliating cession of more than half the nation’s territory to the United States, but López Obrador saw in it at least a few examples of valor.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 June 2012
  • The first Indian cession within the Louisiana Territory established the mold.
    — Robert Lee, Slate Magazine, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Thomas Jefferson and other politicians, many of them land speculators, would pursue Native land cessions for both personal and political gain into the 1800s.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The prevalence of smoking has significantly decreased since the 1990s, and countries have been enacting various attempts at cession for decades—including restrictions on smoking in public places.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • In the meantime, the federal government assigned clerks to deal with the day-to-day logistics of the removal, appointed commissioners to negotiate land cessions, and mobilized thousands of soldiers to make the deportations a reality on the ground.
    — David Treuer, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
  • German citizens resented the cession of this land with its three million Germans, and over the course of the 1930s, Hitler became increasingly aggressive in demanding its return to his Third Reich.
    — TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said that the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie treaties requires the US government to provide food, supplies and support in exchange for peace, land cessions and passage.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025

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