Sentence examples for the ying from inspiring English sources
noun
A Y-shaped object, such as a railroad fork or a support for a telescope; a wye, a bifurcation.
A variation is pronounced "ying-takh", the "ying" as it sounds but maybe with a silent "G" sound at the end, and again spit the "takh" part.
Yacht was the ying to the scary world's yang.
"I could have sold wine up the ying yang".
After the ying, the yang: in comes the brilliant, if pugnacious, actor and director Steven Berkoff.
The performers: Tara Helen O'Connor, flutist; Charles Neidich, clarinetist; Nancy Allen, harpist; and the Ying Quartet.
NEW CANAAN Waveny Carriage Barn Waveny Chamber Music Society Concert, featuring the Ying Quartet.
On Sunday, the Ying Quartet and Elinor Freer, a pianist, perform Dvorak's rich-textured Piano Quartet in E flat.
"Catan [was] poised to be the ying to video games' yang," says board game designer Gil Hava.
When the Ying Quartet played at the high school a few Saturdays ago, almost 600 people showed up.
The group's version of "T'Was the Night Before Christmas" owes debts to Slick Rick and the Ying Yang Twins.
"I could have sold wine up the ying yang". But firewood was closer to his Canadian heart.
