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    Use "unyielding" in a sentence

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    unyielding


    1. down onto the unyielding flagstones as they swept past heavy browed doors set in


    2. In Danton’s wake a red capped guard hurried on, head bowed, taking two pigeon steps for every one that the committee chairman slammed down onto the unyielding flagstones as they swept past heavy browed doors set in frames of rough cut, foot square timbers


    3. She stood stoney-faced, unyielding, holding the door ajar until they gave in and filed outside, reduced to being naughty boys


    4. Without pausing to allow them time to think, he was whirling, spinning, and jabbing at them with ferocity and strength, unyielding and unabatedly


    5. His flesh was cold, stiff, unyielding to his efforts as he sought to raise his head


    6. Overall, the effect seemed cold, unyielding


    7. But instead, he opened his palm, his arm held stiff, his visage stern, unyielding


    8. But no, it was unyielding, not alive


    9. ‘In this time of crisis we will stand resolute and unyielding in the face American oppression


    10. Whenever a group of individuals gather around to establish a community, it is effected with the explicit understanding that each member is expected to surrender a portion of his or her (―natural‖) freedoms; duty bound to impartially support, in a manner that is not prejudicial to any (single) individual, community laws ratified by popular consent for the benefit of every member of that community, without exception, lest unyielding power and influence fall into the hands of the Quick and Strong

    11. Each bears seed after its own kind, yet the ground beneath remains unyielding


    12. Democrats have been shamefully exploiting this unhappy event for political reasons; unyielding in their persistence that poverty and racism are (somehow) the underlying factors responsible for this (―avoidable‖) tragedy when, in fact, it was the result of ―unintended‖ consequences precipitated by decades of political cynicism, cronyism, mis-management, fiscal incompetence and (local) corruption at every conceivable level; this despite the forewarnings of field experts (Army Corps of Engineers) citing potential or probably breaches in drainage canal levees since the Johnson Administration


    13. Throwing her head back, she screamed her pain to the unyielding darkness, then screamed again her grief and rage


    14. The great blue bowl of the sky was cloudless and clear, the light harsh and unyielding


    15. Walston remained unyielding in his contention that he and Frazer weren’t personally acquainted


    16. His equally hard glare at the Patriarch with eyes like fiery pinpricks of unyielding light, indicated that he was expending huge amounts of patience and self-restrain in order for him not to lunge at the Patriarch right then and there


    17. He threw a fist to the black floor which remained unyielding, unmarred and unbroken


    18. He told him crisply, his words coming out of his mouth harsh and unyielding, very much unlike his usual meek and irenic manner:


    19. His breastplate was polished to a mirror sheen, reflecting wildly the terrible forms of his men clad in their huge plate armor, like moving unyielding hulks of metal


    20. “I should be the one asking that,” replied Ethan with an expressionless, sombre face, his features strict and unyielding

    21. Standing in front of John’s apartment, Russell closed his eyes, stepped forward, and bumped into the unyielding door


    22. We walk over unyielding ground toward the train tracks


    23. I look at him, expecting to find his eyes cold and unyielding


    24. But when I touch her she is cold, her body stiff and unyielding


    25. But her steel-blue eyes were as icy and unyielding as the sky of the winter night


    26. It isn’t your fault that your parents never had to hide in the brush living on leaves and twigs through much of their youth, followed by scrounging around trying to make a living off the rough unyielding soil of a mountainside, watching their parents age decades in years and die a miserable poverty-stricken death


    27. Nails: Words that are fastened in the memory; constant; permanent; incapable of being moved; unyielding; something that is affixed


    28. 9 They were dragged along by unyielding chains, like wild beasts of these,


    29. Drury sees liberalism as having sunk into a pattern of “rigid, ruthless, intolerant, and unyielding orthodoxy


    30. Surprisingly he kept his intense gaze on me; I don’t know what he saw in my eyes that held his unyielding attention

    31. He paused then he gently turned me around, his gaze unyielding on my face


    32. When she left, he was sad and tearful for he wanted her to stay, and instead he chased her out of the house with his unyielding attitude


    33. And as for money, power and politics it was the teachers union and its unyielding, unconscionable defense


    34. Below the pipe, he could see only darkness, but he knew that the throat of the gorge was choked with unyielding stone


    35. My approach, despite an unyielding legal opinion of my father’s tax attorney that the company could not be sold, was simple


    36. 9 They were dragged along by unyielding chains like wild beasts of these some had their necks thrust into the benches of the rowers; while the feet of others were enclosed in hard fetters


    37. Tall for his age, slender, but a posture that suggested unyielding toughness


    38. 15 Cymboyton's eldest son had appealed to Abner at Philadelphia for help, but Abner's choice of teachers was most unfortunate in that they turned out to be unyielding and uncompromising


    39. Conan lifted his knife and smote, and the watchers were dumbfounded to see his blow checked apparently in midair, with the loud clang of steel that meets an unyielding substance


    40. His shoulders, face and snout were armored, unyielding to tooth or claw, root or rock

    41. • The pain can be severe and unyielding


    42. Max fell backwards, his skull fracturing on the unyielding floor, with Carla partly under him


    43. He just happened to see the enormous vehicle lurch over the unyielding obstruction and went to investigate


    44. He had to give the elder Maynwaring credit for his unyielding


    45. Jed couldn’t read Jimmie’s eyes, which were cold and unyielding


    46. that public forum, under the scrutiny of others, he was unyielding


    47. His appearance was very intimidating for reasons that one could only surmise to be a result of his air of superiority and his quiet, unyielding eyes that blazed like cold fire


    48. knot breeze buffeting against several square metres of (temporarily!) unyielding canvas creates immense strain on that little spike in the ground


    49. It was only a few feet from Ben when it slammed into something hard and unyielding


    50. Learning from one’s own mistakes is surely one of those aspects of life that some clever arse with stupid ears has made up a ridiculous maxim for, making one wish he were still alive to facilitate the mashing off his face into something hard and unyielding










































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    Synonyms for "unyielding"

    unyielding dogged dour persistent pertinacious tenacious headstrong obstinate willful bullheaded intractable stiff perverse determined firm inflexible stanch adamant uncompromising relentless rigid unbending fixed

    "unyielding" definitions

    stubbornly unyielding


    resistant to physical force or pressure