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 George Gissing
Polly's heart had been yielding during the whole of that interview.
From Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope
Now and then for a passing moment when she had time to think of her always erratic nephew, Mrs. Burton wished that Billy had been yielding to his usual slothfulness.
From The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Margaret O'Bannon Womack Vandercook
He could see now how for all these years he had been yielding himself prisoner to the devil, and how his apprenticeship had culminated in the perpetration of a devilish deed.
From The Daughter Pays by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
