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How to use unyielding in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Unyielding means not giving in; not bending; stubborn. Example: “Don Pape, for hearing unheard voices, for unyielding ad-vocacy, and for your bright mirth.”

More sentences with unyielding

  • Don Pape, for hearing unheard voices, for unyielding ad-vocacy, and for your bright mirth.2025, Heath Hardesty, Jon Tyson, All Things Together: How Apprenticeship to Jesus Is the Way of Flourishing in a Fragmented World, PRH…. From the entry Tom Bombadil
  • Owing to their coarsely drawn, unyielding masculine outlines, Wojaks are especially compatible with efforts to channel aggression.2021, Jeffrey Demsky, Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020, page 112. From the entry wojak
  • The loutish, vulgar train rushed up onto the bridge, which seemed to stand there loftish and unyielding.2012, Yan Mo, Big Breasts and Wide Hips. From the entry loftish
  • Or it may refer to "true blue" principles of Puritans—that is, unyielding and dogmatic.2010, Garrett Peck, “BLUE LAWS”, in Rachel Black, editor, Alcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood…. From the entry true blue
  • The front part, called the cephalothorax (or prosoma), is enclosed within a relatively hard and unyielding chitinous shell.1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, published 1996, page 12. From the entry prosoma
  • Reagan said that "a half a loaf is better than none" and that unyielding critics had "misread" his tactics.1983 February 10, Francis X. Clines, “Reagan's wish is no minimum wage for youths”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Mar 2014. From the entry half a loaf is better than none
  • Seemingly forever, our race had found cause to call the whites devils, for their unyielding sense of exploitation; their double-handedness in dealing; their tongue-in-cheek fraternising.1993, Chidi Ngangah, Through laughter and tears: modern Nigerian short stories, page 71. From the entry double-handedness
  • Or phylacteries on skulls unyielding, While our river of days flows dark With a yeartide of days, a yeartide of nights Unhallowed, unhallowed?1958, American Jewish Congress, Judaism. From the entry yeartide
  • My fingers clawed futilely at the unyielding portal, while my eyes sought in vain for a duplicate of the button which had given us ingress.1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as…. From the entry ingress
  • Even as it buckled over the years and the nail heads at the edges popped up and rusted from repeated moppings, that floor symbolized her unyielding independence.2013, Evelyn I. Funda, Weeds: A Farm Daughter's Lament, page 32. From the entry mopping
  • A square seat, about as wide and unyielding as a table-top, was strapped securely to each donkey, and to this seat we clung, with no secureness at all.1919, Ellen N. La Motte, Peking Dust. From the entry securely

Meaning of unyielding

  1. adjective Not giving in; not bending; stubborn.

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Questions about unyielding in a sentence

How do you use unyielding in a sentence?
Unyielding is used as an adjective. For example: “Don Pape, for hearing unheard voices, for unyielding ad-vocacy, and for your bright mirth.”
What is a short sentence with unyielding?
“Don Pape, for hearing unheard voices, for unyielding ad-vocacy, and for your bright mirth.”
What does unyielding mean?
Unyielding means not giving in; not bending; stubborn.

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