All 11 Uses of
yield
in
Call It Sleep
- His body relaxed, yielding to the rhythm of the song and to the golden June sunlight.
Book 1yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- "Awrigh'!" he yielded.
Book 4yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Being near them, hearing the erratic spatter of their voices, yielding to their flickering moods was like basking in a hectic familiar oblivion.
Book 4 *yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- Where he's in danger I won't yield, do you understand?†
Book 1
- His eyes, veering in every direction, implored the stubborn street for an answer it would not yield.†
Book 1 *
- Unlocked, it yielded-gave upon darkness.†
Book 1
- By the mad smile on my face, he must have thought I was yielding, for he seized my arm and said: Look at me Genya!†
Book 2
- His spirit yielded, melted into light.†
Book 3
- Where the crust on the bread his mother bought was stiff and thick as card-board, this had a pliant yielding skin, thin as the thriftiest potato paring or the strip one unwound from a paper lead-pencil.†
Book 4
- Behind him the hard edges, knobs, of piled furniture, and higher something yielding, sack or mattress.†
Book 4
- The former glowed, the latter yielded a sere, aromatic smoke.†
Book 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2)
(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)