yield up

VERB
  1. surrender, as a result of pressure or force

How To Use yield up In A Sentence

  • And I shall know that I must die, at sea most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all the strength and movement of my muscles that it may become strength and movement in fin and scale and the guts of fishes. Chapter 7
  • They are still refusing to yield up their weapons.
  • Monterey Bay is more likely to yield up orcas, humpbacks or minkes at this time of year in what is America's largest marine sanctuary in an underwater canyon the size of the Grand Canyon.
  • Are the citizens still refusing to yield up the town?
  • One sago palm may yield up to 400 kg of starch.
  • We were going to wait and see whether they responded to the call to yield up the people responsible.
  • He would never yield up the castle to the English.
  • Gazing at their done-over barns and railroad apartments in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one gets the definite sense that their "undecorated" spaces are a bit more decorated than our own undecorated spaces, and one secretly suspects that one's own life may not yield up the time to stumble across handpainted Chinoiserie wallpaper by the storied French firm de Gournay or antique Etruscan pottery brought back from a trip to Beirut. The Rise of the Personal
  • We understood that overwhelming love drove them to yield up their babies in a hope that they may have a better future.
  • The ordinary people refused to yield up their humanity.
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