Sentence examples for example and yet from inspiring English sources
We abhor pedophilia, for example, and yet our culture worships teenage girls.
Hurricane Irene was considered a 100-year storm, for example, and yet Sandy struck a year later.
Benjamin Britten is a classic example, and yet those who were caught in his flame, even if they were burned, still have a great love for him, which is quite remarkable.
Bill Nighy isn't in it, for example, and yet afterwards I had an intense memory of Bill Nighy being in it, the way amputees can feel their toes itching.
There are areas, moreover, in which it is hard to find any laws large tracts of the life and earth sciences, for example—and yet scientists in these areas are credited with the most important discoveries.
In Syria, Mr. Assad has repeatedly promised to make changes in the political system — ending emergency rule, for example — and yet has continued with a broad and brutal crackdown.
Sense data theorists will generally admit that it is logically possible that someone should have exactly the same sense data that I, for example, have, and yet for there to be no physical objects around that person of the kind that I take myself to be surrounded by.
This is another shining example: brilliantly mad and yet strangely captivating, as so much of her music is.
"The president is supposed to set an example to everybody, and yet here he wanted to have his girlfriend working with him, which is flatly prohibited under bank rules".
However, the real irony comes in the fact that we are condemned for not having valid and concrete examples of racism and, yet, when we attempt to present any, we are accused of overplaying the victim card.
