Yielding

//ˈjiːldɪŋ//

"Yielding" in a Sentence (10 examples)

Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.

He made every effort to avoid yielding to the temptation to start drinking again.

That daimyo holds a fief yielding 100,000 koku of rice.

I've heard barley is yielding fruit in Sisku's field.

He went out, yielding to a sudden impulse.

Temptations can be got rid of. How? By yielding to them.

The Tyrians, yielding to the god, abate / their fierceness. Dido, more than all the rest, / warms to her Phrygian friends, and wears a kindly breast.

It's a sharp axe, but the branch is not yielding.

Lady Stair, a woman accustomed to universal submission, for even her husband did not dare to contradict her, treated this objection as a trifle, and insisted upon her daughter yielding her consent to marry the new suitor, David Dunbar, son and heir to David Dunbar of Baldoon, in Wigtonshire.

Law is yielding: where you desire, there it goes.

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