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How to use yield to in a sentence

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Don't yield to the temptation to deal with externals in order to keep the conversation going, or to impress others.
The ten-year yield to maturity slipped to 14.31 per cent on a weighted average basis.
Moreover, rather than inhibiting her, marriage permits her to yield to passion.
Just across the Mobile County line, pine plantations yield to a primeval landscape of moss-draped trees and oxbow lakes.
But the college stood its ground, refusing to yield to these extortive demands.
With the other hand, she tapped a yellow sign made in the shape of a yield to traffic sign.
The safety authority wanted all vehicles approaching a T-junction from a minor road to yield to right-turning traffic from a through road.
A successful hydrofracturing allows the yield to increase from few tens of percent to more than hundred percent.
As soon as he became emperor, Henry VI demanded that Byzantium yield to him all the Greek lands that had been conquered by the Normans.
I'm beginning to think such iconic lines are in marble precisely so they won't be bent or made to yield to a scribbler's whim.
Owners of classic cars are being urged not to yield to the temptation of the government's scrappage scheme and have them needlessly crushed.
From the very beginning, he wanted a people who would welcome him into their hearts and yield to him as he shaped them into his likeness.
After two hours' rock hopping the forest starts to yield to scrub and eventually meadow as we emerge above the treeline.
She refuses to yield to the advances of her husband's friend Luka and rejects his request to marry him.
Learning how to serve had begun to yield to women's changing aspirations and increasing economic emancipation.
To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism.
It was his daimon who intervened in the Phaedrus, after Socrates had argued that it was better for a boy to yield to a man who did not love him than to a lover.
The gleety results of a badly treated gonorrhea sometimes yield to it.
Many critics complained about the prolonged denouement of the film, which is not fair because they seem to yield to reflex rather than judge by merit.
Trail rules require that bikers yield to hikers and equestrians.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Even the slain deer was already beginning to yield to the suction from beneath.
Do you yield to them of your own free will, or do the people hate you, or have you a quarrel with your kinsfolk?
He followed her docilely, caring no longer to yield to any other will than hers.
To yield to it, is to fetter our life with self-imposed and fantastic chains.
They wrangled on the doorstep until it was late, but she would not yield to him.
He had told himself all these things, maturely considered them, yet he would not yield to the might of the strangers.
The Indian must yield to them in this knowledge, and even the habile sailor makes but a clumsy knot in comparison.
Whatever happened, we should have been at Spitsbergen, and I was in no humor to yield to anything but the most absolute proof.
In other cases the ulcerated cornea may yield to pressure from within, which causes it to bulge forwards.
But the recountal of his romantic career must now yield to our chronological survey of the lesser naval events of the Revolution.
What could I say to this gentleman when he pressed me to yield to him, and argued the lawfulness of it?
To yield to him was impossible, and yet the thought of it was tantalizingly sweet.
In the Barber of Paris two men yield to their respective passions, avarice and libertinage.
Active hemorrhage of this nature may yield to tight bandaging, but ligation of the vessel should be done.
A short time after, the steward Gras went to Hermon to entreat him to yield to Thyone's entreaties and leave the deck.
In unessential matters he is ready to yield to the sentiments of his inferiors.
Even ambition, the least governable of all human passions, could then yield to the necessities of the State.
I yield to no man in my sense of duty, and I allow no private considerations to override it.
A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request, without waiting for arguments to reason one into it.
But Manuel was too wily to yield to a temptation merely because it was pleasurable.
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