yield
verb (used with object)
to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation.
had been yielding
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past perfect progressiveof yield.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Janbon told VTM News, that his counter-terrorist special task force had been yielding good national results, and had managed to stop departures to Syria.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2015
Of late he had been yielding to several such caprices.
From Demos by Gissing, George
The moon, that for some minutes had been yielding but a faint light, became suddenly eclipsed by a cloud, and the darkness was now greater than ever.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
It would never do for him to know she had been yielding to incipient jealousy.
From A Texas Ranger by Raine, William MacLeod
I had been yielding to a selfish burst of grief, thoughtless of the agony I was inflicting.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
