All 7 Uses of
yield
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- But Harriet Wheelwright was fair-minded enough, and smart enough, to yield in the case of a small difference of opinion.†
p. 45..9 (definition 2)
- And I know that is a story my mother wouldn't have yielded to Dan.†
p. 112..3 (definition 1) *
- Chief Pike had carried the fallen postal thespian into the bracing night air, where Mr. Morrison had revived with a vengeance—wrestling in the snow with Gravesend's determined chief of police, until Mr. Morrison yielded to the strong arm of the law.†
p. 257..4 (definition 1)
- The subject of "concerned" parents and alumni yielded an especially lively and controversial column for The Voice.†
p. 294..6 (definition 1)
- The class loved Sartre and Camus—the concept of "the unyielding evidence of a life without consolation" was thrilling to us teenagers.†
p. 314..9 (definition 1)
- In the end, I yielded to Mrs. Brocklebank's frenzy to educate herself; I said I'd lend her my copy of The Life of the Tidepool.†
p. 318..0 (definition 1)
- Those two devotions need not necessarily yield an unexciting life, but my life has been determinedly unexciting; my life is a reading list.†
p. 580..7 (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