Sentence examples for relent I from inspiring English sources

"I don't relent, I don't give up," she said.

This made me relent, I laughed and said O.K., Mama, O.K., as I raked my fingers through her fur.

"I have spent more than half my adult life in prison or banishment but we cannot give up or relent, I hope Maldivians understand that if we lose these institutions we lose everything," said Nasheed, speaking before his arrest.

Lester Holt challenged Trump with these facts and Trump refused to relent: "I did not support the war in Iraq".

When pressed about the need to understand the natural and ecological systems that underpin a complex landscape, Goldberger does relent: "I think that is true.

Even if I can't find the much-longed-for book I came in for, I leave with something else and am just as happy to have found a treasure which will live on my bookshelf (after I have read it) until someone begs to borrow it and I relent, knowing I can probably get another copy from Booths' if, by chance, they don't return it or it comes back shabby.

He smiled faintly, relenting: "I know, I get it — the couch is what makes it a TV show.

Still, he relents, "I suppose the idea of myself as clean-living was something that scared me.

Bette relented: "I won't work with that bitch again, but we wouldn't be in the same scenes".

Eventually the resistance relents: I can shepherd the boys as far as the Windsor footbridge, from whence we can fish for people.

Later, after the lightning relented, I carried the fish home in drizzle and dusk while Jack and Mick babbled as if they had bested a white whale.