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• The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.From the entry swelter
• Elmo looked upon his only granddaughter with kindliness, and often relented to her demands for chocolate.From the entry kindliness
• He didn't relent until the last shudder rippled through her beautiful body.2015, Melissa Foster, Healed by Love (Love in Bloom; The Bradens at Peaceful Harbor; 1), Los Gatos, Calif.: Smashwords, →ISBN. From the entry lave
• Officers have made the mistake of applying many Taser cycles, expecting the suspect to relent.2014, R.T. Wyant, Thomas Burns, Risk Management of Less Lethal Options, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 211. From the entry cycle
• I wish you could relent.” “Just love the early morning sunshine, Jer-bear.” His face clouds.2014, John Hornor Jacobs, The Shibboleth, Carolrhoda Lab ™, →ISBN, page 147. From the entry Jer-bear
• As a fourth finger snapped, Cacus gave an unearthly scream and relented.2011, Steven Saylor, Roma: The Epic Novel of Ancient Rome. From the entry unearthly
• There were still 20 minutes remaining but the pace refused to relent.2011 February 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 2 - 4 Chelsea”, in BBC. From the entry goalmouth
• McCain relented in April, but his new stance represented mostly a political pivot, supporting administration antiforeclosure efforts.2008 June 15, “Foreclosures and the Election”, in New York Times. From the entry antiforeclosure
• After taking one life, Hurricane Gloria relented and swept northward, leaving wrecked buildings, piers, boats.1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 490. From the entry life
• Ain't gon' no nothin' but stir up trouble." But Kunta explained its meaning, and she relented.1976 Alex Haley, Roots, Reader's Digest:Treasury of Great Books, volume 110 (1977), page 164. From the entry kizzy
• The Chinese didn’t relent, however, and despite huge losses to both forces, the Y Force eventually took the city on June 10.[2003, Donovan Webster, chapter 14, in The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II, New York: Farrar…. From the entry Tengchong
• False-flagged chemical attacks didn't happen, and Trump seemed to relent and descend into a moody lack of clarity about who's chem-attacking whom in the near future.2017, John Hogue, Worldwide Astrological Predictions for the Real New Year, page 81. From the entry false flagged
• The whole day long you kept showing up behind the door, hurling taunt after taunt at me for not tying a rakhi on you, until Mother finally relented.2011, Altaf Fatima, “Do You Suppose It’s the East Wind?”, in Reza Aslan, editor, Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle…. From the entry rakhi
• Do we throw up our hands and relent that ten years of Potterdom were great, but it's over now, and we should just get on with our lives?2010, E. A. Pyne, chapter 25, in The Ultimate Guide to the Harry Potter Fandom, What the Flux Comics Publishing, →ISBN, page 283. From the entry Potterdom
• He eventually relented, though I can’t tell you how long it took, but I’m sure that helped him move from a marginal life to at least a semiprosperous one.”2009 February 4, Sewell Chan, “Venerable Bookstore to Close in Village”, in New York Times. From the entry semiprosperous
• There was something artless in Toby's delivery; he was working in the family tradition of teasing, but he was too relenting and couldn't yet match Gerald's heavy archness.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry archness
• Only when the bankers and industrialists abroad realized that a ferocious class struggle in Germany was raging did they begin to relent somewhat on their economic bloodletting.2004 July 1, Leslie Feinberg, “Sexual freedom vs. fascism in Germany”, in Workers World. From the entry bloodletting
• The men begged him to decimate them instead, and Caesar relented in the same way that Titus refrained from executing this cavalryman after his comrades’ appeal.1998, Adrian Goldsworthy, The Roman Army at War, page 263. From the entry decimate

Meaning of relent

1. verb To give in or be swayed; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to show clemency.
2. verb To slacken; to abate.
3. verb To lessen, make less severe or intense.

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Questions about relent in a sentence

How do you use relent in a sentence?

Relent is used as a verb, noun and adjective. For example: “He had planned to ground his son for a month, but relented and decided to give him a stern lecture instead.”

What is a short sentence with relent?

“The pistons of this engine moved without relent.”

What does relent mean?

Relent means to give in or be swayed; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to show clemency.