YIELDING in a Sentence
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237 example sentences for YIELDING, such as:
1. That apple tree yield s plenty of apples.
2. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
3. Love will not yield to all the might of wealth.
4. The wounded knight refused to yield to his foe.
5. This method of cultivation produces higher yield.
2. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
3. Love will not yield to all the might of wealth.
4. The wounded knight refused to yield to his foe.
5. This method of cultivation produces higher yield.
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Meanings and Examples of YIELDING
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yielding
a. lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure
a. inclined to yield to argument or influence or control
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 She was no longer plastic clay, yielding imprint to each new experience.
2 But, she told herself time and again, she would have to walk easily, gingerly, be meek under insults, yielding to injustices, never giving offense to anyone, black or white, who might do her harm.
3 She felt again the rush of helplessness, the sinking yielding, the surging tide of warmth that left her limp.
4 She pondered, half-way between yielding and refusal.
5 I had never seen her so energetic; she was panting with zeal, and the perspiration stood in drops on her short, yielding upper lip.
6 It was not a sudden yielding to a fit of passion, but the consummation of a devilish purpose which has been seeking and waiting for the opportunity.
7 The physical need for sleep began to overtake her; the exuberance which had sustained and exalted her spirit left her helpless and yielding to the conditions which crowded her in.
8 But far from yielding to the impulse, she avoided any occasion which might throw her in his way.
9 Slowly and reluctantly yielding to the necessity, he quitted the place, and mingled with the throng that hovered nigh.
10 At length, yielding rather to his unusual impatience than taking counsel from his knowledge, he determined to bring matters to an issue, by unmasking his force, and proceeding cautiously, but steadily, up the stream.
11 But a deep, underlying spirit of cautiousness prevented his often yielding to appetite in such measure as to lose control of himself.
12 But a woman could yield to a man without yielding her inner, free self.
13 Gradually, with infinite softness, almost with love, she was getting him by the throat, and he was yielding to her.
14 She kissed him, with a woman's grief at yielding up her hour.
15 Susan was only acting on the same truths, and pursuing the same system, which her own judgment acknowledged, but which her more supine and yielding temper would have shrunk from asserting.
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1 I know that I was weak in yielding to my mother's will.
2 The wounded knight refused to yield to his foe.
3 The increased grain yield is a step towards self-sufficiency for one of the world's most aid-dependent countries.
4 I momentarily forgot my own sorrows to yield to a vague concern for her.
5 Much enjoyment I do not expect in the life opening before me: yet it will, doubtless, if I regulate my mind, and exert my powers as I ought, yield me enough to live on from day to day.
6 If you do not yield, I am afraid the enemy will despoil the countryside.
7 Paradoxically, fallacious reasoning does not always yield erroneous results: even though your logic may be faulty, the answer you get may nevertheless be correct.
8 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health measured the nicotine yield of different brands between 1998 and 2004 and found a worrying increase across the board.
9 Finally it occurred to them that their naked skin represented flesh-colored "tights" very fairly; so they drew a ring in the sand and had a circus -- with three clowns in it, for none would yield this proudest post to his neighbor.
10 Their method can more than double the yield of certain mushroom species compared with conventional cultivation methods.
11 Love will not yield to all the might of wealth.
12 That apple tree yield s plenty of apples.
13 To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
14 Our research has only recently begun to yield important results.
15 This method of cultivation produces higher yield.