Sample Sentences for
yield
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yield as in:  will yield valuable data

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The discovery could yield a more effective treatment for diabetes.
yield = produce (lead to)
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    The experiment yielded data that raised a new set of questions.
    yielded = produced
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    A warmer climate has reduced crop yields in the area.
    yields = production
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    It's a tradeoff. Bonds that yield more interest have more risk.
    yield = produce
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    I want a high-yield investment.
    yield = production (in this case, creation of more income)
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    Ted started kicking him in the kidneys, yielding bursts of white-hot agony.  (source)
    yielding = producing
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    "A diamond must be cut many times before it yields even a tiny jewel," I said.  (source)
    yields = gives
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    After countless tries, the net yielded two flopping silvery fish.  (source)
    yielded = produced
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    The idea, it seemed, was to stop hunting for the thing entirely and let the house yield up its secret on its own.  (source)
    yield up = give
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    At night when the sun went down, the sheets were slackened; in the morning, when they yielded up the damp of the dew and relaxed, they were pulled tight again—and that was all.†  (source)
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    One seated, yielding up her throat to the kind hands of one of the two kneeling before her.†  (source)
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    As the rustic who rests him on the bill in the season when he that brightens the world keepeth his face least hidden from us, what time the fly yieldeth to the gnat,[1] sees many fireflies down in the valley, perhaps there where he makes his vintage and ploughs,—with as many flames all the eighth pit was resplendent, as I perceived soon as I was there where the bottom became apparent.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She yieldeth" in older English, today we say "She yields."
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    He washed his own linen in the bath-tub and, except for occasional fiercely delightful yieldings, he did not smoke.†  (source)
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    Reckoning ahead O soul, when thou, the time achiev'd, The seas all cross'd, weather'd the capes, the voyage done, Surrounded, copest, frontest God, yieldest, the aim attain'd, As fill'd with friendship, love complete, the Elder Brother found, The Younger melts in fondness in his arms.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou yieldest" in older English, today we say "You yield."
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yield as in:  yield to pressure

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The country vowed not to yield to pressure from its larger neighbors.
yield = give in
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    After the scandal, she yielded to public pressure and resigned her position.
    yielded = gave in
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    A yield sign means you do not have the right-of-way if other cars are also approaching the intersection.
    yield = give way
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    When a mountain road narrows to one lane, it is polite and efficient for the car driving down hill to yield to the car going up hill.
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    I've been good about my diet for a month, but last night I yielded to temptation and had too much ice cream.
    yielded = gave in
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    I'm afraid of myself, afraid my longing is making me yield too soon.  (source)
    yield = give in
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    The new, more yielding environment allowed the carbon fibers to separate.  (source)
    yielding = easily moved (giving way)
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    She clutched the pendant, squeezing the unyielding metal until her muscles ached, as if forcing into her own mind the almost unthinkable fact that she might really remain an ugly for life.  (source)
    unyielding = hard
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyielding means not and reverses the meaning of yielding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    His body is warm, but I feel only his bones and the muscle that wraps around them; nothing yields beneath me.  (source)
    yields = gives way (is soft)
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    I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot; And thou shalt find a king that will revenge Lord Stafford's death.  (source)
    yielder = someone who surrenders
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    Knowing, however, the dairyman's wish, she endeavoured conscientiously to take the animals just as they came, expecting the very hard yielders which she could not yet manage.†  (source)
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    In turn he took his place in the reading class and made a botch of it; then in the geography class and turned lakes into mountains, mountains into rivers, and rivers into continents, till chaos was come again; then in the spelling class, and got "turned down," by a succession of mere baby words, till he brought up at the foot and yielded up the pewter medal which he had worn with ostentation for months.  (source)
    yielded up = surrendered
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    But as the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul, therefore it must have been that, in Ahab's case, yielding up all his thoughts and fancies to his one supreme purpose; that purpose, by its own sheer inveteracy of will, forced itself against gods and devils into a kind of self-assumed, independent being of its own.  (source)
    yielding up = surrendering
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    Women, more especially—in the continually recurring trials of wounded, wasted, wronged, misplaced, or erring and sinful passion—or with the dreary burden of a heart unyielded, because unvalued and unsought came to Hester's cottage, demanding why they were so wretched, and what the remedy!  (source)
    unyielded = not having given in
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyielded means not and reverses the meaning of yielded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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