RELENT in a Sentence

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Meg smiled and relented, and whispered as they stood waiting to catch the time, "Take care my skirt doesn't trip you up."

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 Meanings and Examples of RELENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
relent
 v.  give in; become more compassionate or forgiving; cause to soften in attitude or temper
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Amy hastily shook out half a dozen and laid the rest down before Mr. Davis, feeling that any man possessing a human heart would relent when that delicious perfume met his nose.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
2  Hannah had been cold and stiff, indeed, at the first: latterly she had begun to relent a little; and when she saw me come in tidy and well-dressed, she even smiled.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  No; but she might suppose that something would occur in your favour; that your own family might in time relent.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49
4  In my honeymoon, too, when my most inveterate enemy might relent, one would think, and not envy me a little peace of mind and happiness.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
5  We shrink not from death, nor relent before any of thy gods.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
6  Pity thine allies; relent, and retire before thy conqueror.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
7  Hilda began to relent a little.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
8  Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and told him he might make himself at home.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
9  Any other than a monster would have relented at such an act of generous devotion to the best and purest affection; but the breast of the Huron was a stranger to sympathy.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
10  Mary looked at his poor little tired face and swollen eyes and her heart relented.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Meg smiled and relented, and whispered as they stood waiting to catch the time, "Take care my skirt doesn't trip you up."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINE
12  My aunt, I may observe, allowed my horse on the forbidden ground, but had not at all relented towards the donkeys.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
13  The Jew then looked at the glowing furnace, over which he was presently to be stretched, and seeing no chance of his tormentor's relenting, his resolution gave way.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  I would," said the Norman, somewhat relenting, "that I had known of this before.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  Fanny thought she discerned in his standing there an indication of relenting, which encouraged her to another attempt, and she said, therefore, "It is a pity you should not join them."
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  When her stern father would not relent and allow her to marry Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett eloped with her suitor.
2  Afterwards she relented and let the children stay up late to watch TV.
3  Her parents eventually relented and let her go to the party.
4  He was cross at first, but later he relented.