All 11 Uses of
yield
in
Main Street
- On the way home from shopping she yielded, as a pup would have yielded.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- On the way home from shopping she yielded, as a pup would have yielded.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- Mrs. Dave Dyer broke into Carol's peroration with a furious, "That's all very well, but believe me, I do those things myself when I'm without a maid—and that's a good share of the time for a person that isn't willing to yield and pay exorbitant wages!"†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- She wasn't going to yield to the village and let down; she was going to keep up a belief in the rite of tea, to which she had always looked forward as the symbol of a leisurely fine existence.
Chpt 10 (definition 1) *yield = give in, give way, or give up
- They ground their own corn; the men-folks shot ducks and pigeons and prairie chickens; the new breakings yielded the turnip-like rutabagas, which they ate raw and boiled and baked and raw again.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- He asked the veterinarian about the value of different breeds of stock; he inquired of Lyman Cass whether or not Einar Gyseldson really had had a yield of forty bushels of wheat to the acre.
Chpt 16 (definition 2) *yield = production
- She had a reasonless dread that they would intrude on her, then a fear that she would yield to Gopher Prairie's conception of duty toward an Aunt Bessie and go down-stairs to be "nice."†
Chpt 24 (definition 1)
- She felt the demand for standardized behavior coming in waves from all the citizens who sat in their sitting-rooms watching her with respectable eyes, waiting, demanding, unyielding.†
Chpt 24 (definition 1)
- She found no inspiration but she did find a dependable kindness in Mrs. Westlake, and at last she yielded to the old woman's receptivity and had relief in sobbing the story of Bea.†
Chpt 27 (definition 1)
- He looked at her unyielding.†
Chpt 31 (definition 1)
- She pondered, half-way between yielding and refusal.†
Chpt 33 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
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(2) (yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced