yield
verb (used with object)
to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation.
am yielding
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present progressiveof yield (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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If I am yielding for pedestrians to cross before proceeding, why does the taxi driver behind me start honking?
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2010
Really, I am yielding to a fear: am I not about to perform a dangerous and rather mad action, in once more taking upon myself the responsibility of another's life?
From The Choice of Life by Leblanc, Georgette
Even now I am yielding to your entreaties, and doing wrong for your sake, in writing to you without my father's knowledge.
From The Country Doctor by Marriage, Ellen
"I am yielding to the unusual, my King," crackled the Pole's voice thinly.
From A Son of the Immortals by Christy, Howard Chandler
I am yielding to a restlessness which in a younger woman you would understand, but which in me you would no doubt term—crazy.
From Red-Robin by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt
