YIELDING in a Sentence

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I had never seen her so energetic; she was panting with zeal, and the perspiration stood in drops on her short, yielding upper lip.

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 Meanings and Examples of YIELDING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
yielding
 a.  inclined to give way to pressure, argument, or influence; docile; lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She was no longer plastic clay, yielding imprint to each new experience.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  She felt again the rush of helplessness, the sinking yielding, the surging tide of warmth that left her limp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  She pondered, half-way between yielding and refusal.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
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.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
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.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XI
8  But far from yielding to the impulse, she avoided any occasion which might throw her in his way.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXV
9  Slowly and reluctantly yielding to the necessity, he quitted the place, and mingled with the throng that hovered nigh.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
11  But a deep, underlying spirit of cautiousness prevented his often yielding to appetite in such measure as to lose control of himself.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  But a woman could yield to a man without yielding her inner, free self.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  Gradually, with infinite softness, almost with love, she was getting him by the throat, and he was yielding to her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
14  She kissed him, with a woman's grief at yielding up her hour.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
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.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
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.