How To Use Relent In A Sentence

The pain in his side was crushing, as if there was a steel hand in there relentlessly closing on an organ. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The snow relented and we were back to a rocky descending path.
A man might be cruel but if you show your trust he will relent. THE TATTOOED GIRL
This stuff doesn't merely placate the listener with predictable, danceable nursery rhymes but lashes out and lacerates the eardrum relentlessly.
Transport aircraft carrying supplies kept the German columns moving swiftly, and finally relentless bombing helped to force Warsaw into submission.

British summers mean we get rain, wind, sun, snow and frost all in the same week but our winters are just so glum, no blizzards just unrelenting dankness.
But despite the best efforts of his closest aides, it was not until two hours later that the Pope finally relented, the report said.
Although our inner lives have been relentlessly diminished by ecosocial isolation, the antidote lies in recovering awareness of our context.
But there's something desperate about the relentless jokiness. Times, Sunday Times
Healthy hares can easily outrun foxes, but can rarely escape relentless packs of hounds chasing them for up to 90 minutes.
Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence. Vince Lombardi
Jersey political shtick stand-up at the Democratic National Convention; the arena that bore his name has gone through several different corporate sponsors since, and is currently a severely brand-infected assaultively unrelenting advertising-delivery module - in which basketball is still played, sometimes - sponsored by Izod. Can't Stop The Bleeding
Our intellectual culture demands that every idea or phenomenon be subjected to the unrelenting rigour of rationalism, or excesses of scientism.
After the court case Lee was hounded relentlessly by the press.
That could see Tommy Bridewell aboard the Quay Garage Honda posing questions of the title chasing pack as he ran only marginally down in seventh place ahead of Alastair Seeley on the second Relentless Suzuki and Chris Walker riding his privately entered Suzuki Roadracingworld.com
The song is a fiery mix of twanging guitar with relentless drumming.
It is an image of a sleek chrome bullet-train of genre dragging up dead leaves and detritus from the mainstream tracks as it rockets relentlessly forward. Why Do I Infernokrush?
Pigs are innocent victims of a cruel, unrelenting slaughterhouse industry.
Yet such improvements to our education system will require relentless and vocal outcry from the parents whose children suffer most from the current state of our poorest and lowest-performing schools. Jalen Rose: Voter Education Equals Improving Our Educational System
Life in the city for the common people is a relentless struggle to keep out of trouble and keep your head above water.
In the packed public gallery, Mrs Humes's family, who had glared with unrelenting hatred at him during the hearing, were in tears.
Lots of hisses and boos to the Chancellor for not relenting on that score.
It is so relentlessly "sick", its unleashed cruelty so sadistic (the climax is a graphic clitorectomy) that the audience at the premiere booed and hissed. Karin Badt: Cannes Buzz: Which Film Will Win?
Eventually the brief day begins to feel unreal, an illusory comfort for those who cannot take the unrelenting darkness.
Then attention shifted to a relentless focus on levels of government spending on public services.
Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music. Lucretia — Complete
She deftly defeats those who dare challenge her with a relentless intensity.
Finally relenting to the tempting rays of sun, I undressed and sat down on the towel that I had already spread out.
Despite sometimes being quite sensible (as Mr. Kenney is trying to be on citizenship, refugees and immigration), it's members of the Frat Pack who are immediately off the mark with the kind of perfervid rhetoric that goes with the Conservative communications strategy: unrelenting partisanship and obsessive control of information. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
She has campaigned relentlessly for her husband's release from prison.
Whatever their secret longings, the family organized relentlessly around bourgeois correctness.
Live, the four piece are a brooding mixture of visceral, post-punk textures and relentless motorik rhythms.
For weeks the two men had not spoken, but at last Christian had appeared to relent. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
So what, if anything, is being done to halt the seemingly relentless march of rainforest destruction?
Statistics can be used to say anything, but always appear relentless and objective and cold.
He would mock and deride them relentlessly, not stopping until they cried.
The fans responded in kind, cheering him and howling with laughter at his relentless japery. Jonah Keri: Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, and Being an Expos Fan
It has also occultized and enigmatized itself in their image in order to open up and clear to the way to a particular void, to a certain non-sense - unlike the media which remains relentlessly bent on filling up all interstices.
So it's kind of cool for me to think of myself as someone who's unrelenting and controlling of situations.
Jenson, it must have been frustrating feeling you couldn't go any faster and he was closing on you relentlessly.
Granted, there is a trueness of voice in those who have experienced first-hand the hours of relentless boredom punctuated by moments of abject terror that is combat, or law enforcement, for that matter.
The player had the general manager in a headlock at one point, relentlessly giving him noogies.
He turns on the waterworks and Susan relents a bit.
He was happy, unalienated, pulling a 4.0 and relentlessly straight with a series of Laguna girls. Savages
Long was at his best in the big games, relentlessly pursuing quarterbacks and running backs.
Clearly know love is a hurtful things, but we still relentlessness to choose love.
Child 44 is a remarkable debut novel - inventive, edgy and relentlessly gripping from the first page to the last. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith: Book summary
I just wish a character who is wise and focused on a world outside her own desires could have joined this most recent blast of bling and couture to leave long-term devotees with any message other than aging is depressing, marriage is depressing, children are depressing, and complaining about all three relentlessly is boring. Shallow Gals
Lula was ginger-haired with brown eyes and a relentless practicality, which always made me feel I could relax and let her take care of everything.
But Edwards's public face remains relentlessly cheerful, and it's hard to square with the devastation he endured.
The conclusion of the story, in which Procne kills their son then bakes him in a pie and serves him to Tereus in revenge, is less recounted somehow, arguably because the scorched-earth emotional relentlessness it exemplifies sits so uncomfortably withinthe heart of the genuinely feminine. Divorce, American Style
Though he clearly outsang most of his competition tonight, I have little use for his relentless screeching. American Idol Episode Recap: The Top 12 Guys Perform
Clever body — but isn't relentless rehydration good for the skin? Times, Sunday Times
And they're the most obvious sign of the West's relentless tentacles reaching into Angola today.
Recording made him nervous and he gave up in mid-career, relenting for this album to play solo Bach in long stretches, without snippety editing or technical interference.
This is not only because the routine is relentless, the day-in/day-outness of hastily eaten meals, homework help and heart-to-hearts, things that must be done and done and then done again. A New Roof On An Old House
Activity may be relentless — surfing, bodyboarding, cycling, golfing — or not, and the living is good. Times, Sunday Times
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a true revolutionary power. Its central theme has been its relentless attacks, in words and deeds, on the international system.
He was incredibly moved by the experience, and my mother relented and said 'yes, let's name him Norbert.' This Time He's Not the Con Man
The film places them in a situation where they are attacked with relentless vehemence by a faceless enemy they know very little of.
The few communications which do receive full attention normally achieve this through a combination of chance,(Sentence dictionary) inside information and relentless harrassment.
They just ground on relentlessly and there seemed to be no cognisance of the fact that there was a terrible dimension to this and that someone was under such stress.
Having seen and read the reports and highlights from today's PMQs and read a fair few blog posts about it, I just wonder what Gordon Brown think he sounds like when he relentlessly drivels on about Tory cuts vs Labour investment insisting that Labour will increase spending in real terms in the next few years. What does Gordon Brown think he sounds like?
The responsibility for unrelenting global crisis and hardship lies more appropriately with a rudderless global financial system drifting hopelessly without a solid anchor.
The programme was relentlessly unflashy, balm in a media world that gets louder and more vulgar by the day.
Without him, the slow dive into the pit of despair would be relentless.
Russell Williams is now an admitted double murderer, rapist and sexual fetishist, but it's the scale of his obsession, the depth of his deviance and his utter relentlessness which is so terrifying. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The relentless search for new revenues during the Dutch war had led him in 1673 to seek an extension of the regalian rights whereby the crown enjoyed the revenues of vacant episcopal sees.
Finally she relented and on March 14, 1998, she became party president.
But in the midst of this relentless repression, there were rare, precious gems of resistance gleaming out from the melancholy.
The media relentlessly trashes this woman and her family every single day for a over a year and then sanctimoniously reports that her approval rating is dipping. CNN Poll: Favorable view of Palin dipping
He had been unrelenting with his plan and given no heed to the young lieutenant he had talked to.
Regarding globalism as an alien and godless ideology engulfing their country, they fear that transnational forces are relentlessly eroding the traditional American way of life.
Had Clemency been with me the flintiest of Roman P's would have relented, for who could resist -- Clemency? The Amateur Gentleman
The noise, monotonous and unrelenting, brought him back to consciousness.
For eight years the hierarchy has declined to comment on his departure from Maynooth citing legal privilege and only broke its silence a week ago due to relentless media pressure.
Opprobrium from the terraces and beyond was unrelenting.
Regulatory tolerance of go-for-broke risk-taking by insolvent institutions undermines the stability of a country's financial system and allows institutional losses to cumulate relentlessly.
Cryptocurrency mania shows no sign of relenting just yet. Times, Sunday Times
The movie's pace is as relentless and implacable as its villain.
Chickens and hens cluck nearby and the cicadas start up their relentless refrain.
To inspire loyalty, the relenting deputy governor parceled out land to planters.
Today, Pakistani intelligence assets on the ground and American drones in the air hunt Kashmiri relentlessly in the ungoverned tribal areas near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
But a web spider crawls the web for you, plowing through page after page, relentlessly extracting links, page titles, page sizes, and even keywords.
The police did not relent which forced the crowd to surge forward down a driveway to force the release of these women.
One would expect the relentless cacophony of vulgarities and the unrelenting evocation of disturbing mental images first to shock, then to have a numbing effect on the audience.
Gardiner has pursued relentlessly high standards in performing classical music.
Silicon microelectronics has undergone relentless miniaturization during the past 30 years, leading to dramatic improvements in computational capacity and speed.
My father, as may be imagined, was highly incensed at my perseverance, which he called obstinacy, but, what will not be so easily believed, he soon after relented, and appointed a day to take me from the convent. The Romance of the Forest
All in all, his relentless focus on the last several years produces a cartoon version of Lubavitcher history.
Most of the album tears along at a relentless and brutal pace, it is far, far heavier than any of their previous offerings.
Given the relentless nature of the systemic torment and slaughter of millions of other sentient beings that take place day after day, violent responses from nonhuman animal lovers are inevitable and are a morally acceptable means of extensional self-defense on behalf of the voiceless, defenseless victims. He no longer heard the cries of the animals or saw the flowing blood....
The relentless sweltering had gotten to all of us, kids and adults alike; we were short tempered and cranky and prone to starting fights over nothing.
The Department of Community Affairs is Florida's last line of defense against incessant, unrelenting efforts to overbuild and overdevelop our communities. Tcpalm.com Stories
Under the watchful eyes of the police, hustlers and scalpers worked the new spectators relentlessly in the hopes of getting rid of tickets for the game before they were stuck with them.
Between the two of them, they keep up a relentless barrage of badinage.
This fast he would carry out till the end, or until the Government of India relented.
A platform of kinetic cut-and-paste electronica is enriched by waves of horns and choral voices, relentless bass patterns, darting guitars, crisp percussion, jolting changes in meter and Thom Yorke's wheedling vocals sung often without chordal support. Lucinda Williams Snarls, Mary J. Blige Thrills
The Orpington cyclist has just finished circumnavigating the globe after 277 days relentless pedalling and covering an eye-watering 18,000 miles.
A woman from Los Angeles told the Mellman pollsters that this relentless loss of manufacturing capability enfeebles America: "When you consume more than you produce, you become dependent, and we are consuming more from other countries than producing our own ... truly we have become weak and in order to strengthen the economy, I think we need to produce more. Leo W. Gerard: U.S. Politicians Deny the Obvious Injury; U.S. Manufacturing Bleeds
She caught his eye, and her faculties, sharpened by the imminent peril, read relentment there. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life
And since ‘regimes’ have more power and relentlessness than a typical person ever does, the response is always likely to be out of proportion to the alleged offence, even if the offence was real.
Relentless in his pursuit of quality, his technical ability was remarkable.
And with the process comes the question: is all this relentless modernisation really appropriate to eternal truth?
While most pregnant women face moderate stress, a smaller slice have unrelenting, chronic strain.
One man who might catch the eye when the rain relents to allow the game to start is Dwayne Smith.
Caroline: Yes, very insightful, "relentlessness" - is the word I would have used if I could have thought of it. BP and brain problems: "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!"
The president and his backers insist that the opposition's relentless protests calling for reform have hurt the economy and have made implementing changes impossible.
The problem is the story, which seems relentlessly gloomy and downbeat, lacking moments of breakdown and reconciliation that were so crucial to previous successes.
This was due to poor buildings, old machinery and accumulation of mental and physical fatigue because of the unrelenting nature of the activity.
A wonderful message indeed, considering that Mr. Sullivan himself was the chief architect of that inquisitory foray, which he pressed unrelentingly. What Sarah Palin Doesn't Know
Mr. Kennedy's relentless extracurricular pronging is now common knowledge, but was not well known to the nation when he occupied the White House. Lisa Nesselson: JFK, Marilyn Monroe and, uh, Sarah Palin -- The French Recollection
The notes of the church clock continued to reverberate through Flintdown, echoing, measured, relentless. IN LOVE AND WAR
And it was certainly impressive, though acoustically relentless, too. Times, Sunday Times
You surprise me," Deacon continued relentlessly, spotting the ploy. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
Yet it's hard to think of anyone who has pursued power with such relentless single-handedness.
It gets more and more grim and relentless, and its hero more and more unpleasant.
She found his relentless sexual innuendoes irritating.
Their name will remain etched on the stone table of relentless, hard working rock n roll bands.
Yours, Anna Abraham In early February came a week of relentless rain. THE MAIN CAGES
Is this sort of relentless criticism of the president's tardiness too tough?
And what a relentlessly dull, completely empty experience it tends to be.
It conveys an inhuman and relentless force that could well symbolize a very unattractive futurist society as well as the horror of war.
The midfield pairing provided Rangers with a dynamic, unrelenting sense of purpose.
The pressure now was relentless.
If she did nothing else right now she would tumble backward and hit the hard, unrelenting ground head first.
he worked relentlessly
For a place dependent on tourist spending, the unrelenting determination to turn paying customers away is simply beyond rationality.
He whined on the air for three weeks before one of his sponsors relented and gave him a free mobile phone.
With such a cultural diversity, the meal is a mouthwatering blend of Asian, Italian, Indian and American treats that push the stresses of the hospital to the side and tightens the bonds between colleagues used to unrelenting stress. Kari Henley: Family Meals: The Forgotten Ritual
The idea that the Mexican state is on the verge of collapse or that narco-violence is relentlessly sweeping north echo the kind of hyperbolized threat of Africanized bees or Sandinista convoys swarming our southern border during the Reagan era. Ted Lewis: Bad Assumptions Guide US Policy on Day of Obama Visit to Mexico
So taste of the anguish that knows no relent And be with the rest of the wolven forspent! The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
The island is being destroyed by the relentless march of tourism.
He looked at me, and though his tone appeared unrelenting, I thought I detected a subtle expectation in his expression. BETTER THAN THIS
The sun was relentless, and the heat reflected cruelly off the parched earth.
After several labels courted them and then passed for different reasons over the years, Relentless eventually broke up and some members went solo. Dart Adams presents Please Listen To My Demo © EPMD (Revisited)
You have to focus with a kind of relentless determination on keeping your grip.
Similarly, the river is facing relentless encroachment and severe pollution due to inflow of huge amounts of sewage from the habitations.
The conclusion of the story, in which Procne kills their son then bakes him in a pie and serves him to Tereus in revenge, is less recounted somehow, arguably because the scorched-earth emotional relentlessness it exemplifies sits so uncomfortably withinthe heart of the genuinely feminine. Divorce, American Style
It is a relentless satire on the town's citizens, who are depicted as upstarts clambering up the social ladder despite their patent inadequacy.
While assuming a pose of utmost civility and cordiality, Caroline is relentless in her campaign to undermine me.
Such dedication is admirable, but the relentlessness of it, the unendingly hard slog - is that a good thing? Times, Sunday Times
Although the rain pours down with the utmost relentlessness, ceasing all outdoor activities, the man of the field lifts his face to the heavens and smiles.
When his government proved unequal to the challenges of post-cyclone relief and rehabilitation, the public demanded his replacement and Sonia had to relent.
Yours, Anna Abraham In early February came a week of relentless rain. THE MAIN CAGES
Arshad Khan bowled with accuracy and determination and Danish Kaneria showed his thick skin, ignoring the relentless punishing he got, and coming back to bowl superbly at the end of the day.
The Nazi artillery dutifully shelled without mercy, and the Luftwaffe bombarded the streets relentlessly.
But how much relentless cheeriness can the average person take?
I was surprised by this, because I like my Reverend - he's "strong-minded," yes, and a pessimist, but he tries relentlessly to save everybody in town, and never gives up, and he's also one of the smartest, sharpest crayons in the town box. More Under The Dome angst
And Hewitt has not relented on diverting billions of pounds from NHS trusts to private treatment centres.
We need some of their traditional ruthless, relentless, iron-fisted spirit.
One of the saddest and most galling aspects of this foot and mouth tragedy has been the relentless, silent, unpublicised invasion of our shop shelves by imported meat.
The attempts to de-Christianize Christmas are as absurd as they are relentless. Daimnation!: In defence of Christmas
I never really knew a lot about her, only what the media dished out, and to tell you the truth I got tired of the relentless hounding and intrusion into her private life!
Her youthful glow and lean, athletic physique is most likely attributed to her clean, diet, relentless work ethic, and training with personal trainer Jason Walsh. David Buer: Top Five List of Hollywood's Sexiest Bodies
In her book, Cheryl is a vociferous critic of her treatment by journalists, accusing us of relentless intrusion into her privacy.
I'm glad I relented in the end.
He mugs relentlessly for the camera, at one point sporting a bowtie pasta on his lip like a mustache.
What Matt hasn’t pondered is that Zimbabwe got there not via default, but by relentlessly engaging in quantitative easing until only their own govt would by their own debt – thus creating hyper-inflation. Matthew Yglesias » US vs Zimbabwe
It rang like a huge gong banging relentlessly into the silence.
He took a relentless pounding from the media and then from Palin. NJ/VA Palin-less? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
Sadly, despite the crazy antics and the relentless wisecracking, there's very little plot to carry this film.
The weight of the oleaginous air they were breathing lightened perceptibly, while the nearest sphacelated fungi seemed to recoil from the unrelenting cheerfulness, a perception that turned out to be anything but imaginary. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
Clinton's sunshiny announcement covered up the relentlessly nasty race between the private and public sectors, the likes of which we haven't seen since the United States and the Soviet Union raced for the moon.
The rain is an obvious metaphor for oppression and relentless torment, for Davidson himself and his persecution of others.
For instance, my high-school self — skinny, scabby, giggly, gabby, frantic to be noticed, tormented enough to be a tormentor, relentlessly pushing his cartoons and posters and noisy jokes and pseudo-sophisticated poems upon the helpless-high school — strikes me now as considerably obnoxious, though I owe him a lot: without his frantic ambition and insecurity I would not now be sitting on (as my present home was named by others) Haven Hill. John updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
After the court case Lee was hounded relentlessly by the press.
What the committee saw in fact was a course which stood up remarkably well to the almost unrelenting rain.
In his bedroom, -stumbling over a pair of running shoes, he relented and turned the knurl on the pull-out wall lamp. DEAD LINES
It had been huge, whirling, powerful, unrelenting, with a perpetual fury against anything and everything in the world.
Dad relented and soon I had a set of shiny new see-through scope mounts on my rifle.
Once equality becomes thinkable, that is, once the notion that inequalities are eternal and unchangeable is shattered, people begin to seek equality relentlessly and compulsively.
Sayanora, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking may not be as relentlessly intertextual as Ulysses, but this Japanese import is nearly as rich in puns, social commentary, pop-culture parody, and allusions to TV shows, novels, movies, and manga. 04 « March « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
After two days the rain relented slightly and we were able to leave the hotel.
Looking unashamedly middle-aged at times, she portrays the 15-year-old Anna with relentless gusto and enthusiasm.
Sadly, despite the crazy antics and the relentless wisecracking, there's very little plot to carry this film.
Heading straight into the sun the bow of the ship raises its fist for another attack on a relentless swell and angry salt spray spews into the air only to fall back into the collective pit of unchallenged hyaline.
The steering-committee meetings are backstopped by shipboard inspections of relentless detail.
Evidently too stupid to realise that her relentless moaning wasn't coming across very well on the telly, Natalie decided against keeping her gob shut and instead elected to continue to behave like a spoilt child.
He was unique among the cheesecake artists: relentlessly competent and unvaryingly obsessed.
Though her book is unrelenting, it is also unignorable. The Times Literary Supplement
Outside, the sky rumbled, and the falling rain did not relent.
Finally he relented and led her to the cell, opening the door and allowing her to enter.
Although our inner lives have been relentlessly diminished by ecosocial isolation, the antidote lies in recovering awareness of our context.
Afterwards she relented and let the children stay up late to watch TV.
I mean, I wonder whether a lot of people are turned off just to the relentless negativism of the press coverage.
Some guidebooks describe this ridge as relentless, and it is, but underfoot conditions are good and it's just a question of plodding upwards with ever widening views all around you as consolation.
He ran a relentless crusade against the poison antidote formulated by Mithridates, the King of Pontus, Asia Minor, in the first century BC.
In the end, no more than his predecessors would Nixon escape Monnet's relentless logic.
The Cure Hill side relentlessly plundered the runs, aided by some very ragged fielding.
However, his relentless authoritarianism as Home secretary has led him to be distrusted by many in the party.
The heat that day was relentless, and in the west they could see the gathering cumulus clouds that promised a storm, welcome respite from the heat.
A part of him refused to entertain the notion that when he reached its edge, he would be confronted by miles of unrelenting desert sand.
With an eye ever open for the absurdity of her vocation, Mr. Gottlieb steers us through a thicket of fictions and half-truths about Sarah, many of them perpetrated by the "relentless fabulist" herself. Actress, Seductress
Perhaps if I do relent and have them out, I should also book in to have my tonsils and appendix removed as well, just in case.
At the same time, private colleges and universities relentlessly raised their tuitions by a much greater annual percentage than the increases in state appropriations for higher education.
While they pursued this non-military course, local media relentlessly reported on irredentist and chauvinistic campaigns gaining momentum in neighboring republics.
The Washington Post reports that the wave of violence continued unrelentingly on Thursday.
In the economy section of the A380 mock-up Airbus designers compensated for this dark truth with relentlessly cheerful carpet and upholstery in subtropical-fruit colors. The Mother Load
A major factor in determining the outcome was the unrelenting political opposition in the highest quarters.

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