Sentence examples for yielded it from inspiring English sources

The room yielded it secrets slowly.

According to Japanese myth, the shrine's main god, Okuninushi no Mikoto, ruled over this world but yielded it to the divine ancestors of the imperial family.

Now he has yielded it to someone who, he has some reason to hope, has the resources and the will to make it thrive as well as survive.

For the French AG2R team, it was Jaan Kirsipuu, an Estonian who wore the jersey for a handful of days in the 1999 Tour after Lance Armstrong, the prologue winner, gladly yielded it on his way to his first overall triumph.

The economist was interested in all the ways in which projects managed to succeed, both in spite of and because of the difficulties: Instead of asking: what benefits [has] this project yielded, it would almost be more pertinent to ask: how many conflicts has it brought in its wake?

Robinson returned to the ring in 1954, recaptured the middleweight title from Carl (Bobo) Olson in 1955, lost it to and regained it from Gene Fullmer in 1957, yielded it to Carmen Basilio later that year, and for the last time won the 160-pound championship by defeating Basilio in a savage fight in 1958.

When you yield it to somebody else, you in effect abandon it.

Each driver spends only an hour at the wheel, then yields it to another engineer.

If so, your colleague should yield it; she loses her free weekend but keeps her credibility.

Graham made the title role for herself and danced it into her seventies, refusing to yield it to anyone else.

The hand does not yield, it does not caress the paper; it is clasped by an iron gauntlet".