Definition: 1. Production of a certain amount. 2. An amount of a product. 3. The income arising from land or other property. 4. The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time). 5. Be the cause or source of. 6. End resistance, especially under pressure or force. 7. Give or supply.
Use 'yield' in a sentence:
1. What does it yield?
2. I yielded to an impulse.
3. But what did Carnegie-Mellon yield in Pittsburgh?
4. So when you know you're right, you can't yield.
5. To strike, to seek, to find, and never to yield!
6. Will you yield the city?
7. Another break-in yielded a £ 4,000 haul of jewellery.
8. Why does the yield matter so much?
9. The universe is slowly yielding up its secrets.
10. I will not yield. I will not stop.
11. Polluted water lessens crop yields.
12. His trip to Melbourne had yielded a lot of information.
13. It was no wonder the fans turned out. The matches yielded 259 goals.
14. Last year 400,000 acres of land yielded a crop worth$ 1.75 billion.
15. The soldiers had to yield.
16. When entering a trail or starting a descent, yield to other skiers.
17. The climate has grown more equable and the crop yields have risen.
18. We must do everything to raise the per unit yield.
19. Yield to oncoming traffic.
20. Its yield is much greater than the yield of other types of rice grown in Pakistan.
21. The door yielded easily when he pushed it.
22. The yield began the year at 2.17%.
23. The high yields available on the dividend shares made them attractive to private investors.
24. We will stand up and never yield!
25. Inevitably the transition will yield some sticky moments.
26. MOO seeks to replicate the price and yield performance of the global agricultural business.
27. We must do everything to raise the per-unit yield.
28. The increased yield and price of land justified reclaiming and draining even more land.
29. After a long siege, the town was forced to yield.
30. In 1998, the yield was just 5.26%.
31. It yielded a profit of at least$ 36 million.
32. The stock's yield is 3.7%.
33. Will she yield to growing pressure for her to retire?
34. The same seed and fertilizer program may yield completely different outcomes in different places.
35. This research has been in progress since 1961 and has yielded a great number of positive results.
36. The yield is above 74.4% after optimization.
37. That's a very high yield.
38. What is the yield?
39. The yield reached 67%.
40. Would you like to yield your time?
41. This will give a yield of 10% on your investment.
42. Barges yielded to road vehicles for transporting goods.
43. The company's plan supposes a steady increase in wheat yield.
44. This year's yield of wheat is higher than ever before.
45. The President is now under pressure to yield power to the republics.
46. I yielded to temptation and had a chocolate bar.
47. If the government does not yield, it should face sufficient military force to ensure its certain and swift defeat.
48. Despite our attempts to break it, the lock would not yield.
49. He refused to yield up his gun.
50. Research on athletes and ordinary human subjects has yielded a mixed bag of results.
51. A quick trawl through the newspapers yielded five suitable job adverts.
52. Boston's traditional drab brick was slow to yield to the modern glass palaces of so many American urban areas.
53. Higher-rate deposit accounts yield good returns.
