RELENT in a Sentence
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24 example sentences for RELENT, such as:
1. Hilda began to relent a little.
2. He was cross at first, but later he relented.
3. We shrink not from death, nor relent before any of thy gods.
4. Her parents eventually relented and let her go to the party.
5. Afterwards she relented and let the children stay up late to watch TV.
2. He was cross at first, but later he relented.
3. We shrink not from death, nor relent before any of thy gods.
4. Her parents eventually relented and let her go to the party.
5. Afterwards she relented and let the children stay up late to watch TV.
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Meanings and Examples of RELENT
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relent
v. give in, as to influence or pressure
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 Amy hastily shook out half a dozen and laid the rest down before Mr. Davis, feeling that any man possessing a human heart would relent when that delicious perfume met his nose.
2 Hannah had been cold and stiff, indeed, at the first: latterly she had begun to relent a little; and when she saw me come in tidy and well-dressed, she even smiled.
3 No; but she might suppose that something would occur in your favour; that your own family might in time relent.
4 In my honeymoon, too, when my most inveterate enemy might relent, one would think, and not envy me a little peace of mind and happiness.
5 We shrink not from death, nor relent before any of thy gods.
6 Pity thine allies; relent, and retire before thy conqueror.
7 Hilda began to relent a little.
8 Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and told him he might make himself at home.
9 Any other than a monster would have relented at such an act of generous devotion to the best and purest affection; but the breast of the Huron was a stranger to sympathy.
10 Mary looked at his poor little tired face and swollen eyes and her heart relented.
11 Meg smiled and relented, and whispered as they stood waiting to catch the time, "Take care my skirt doesn't trip you up."
12 My aunt, I may observe, allowed my horse on the forbidden ground, but had not at all relented towards the donkeys.
13 The Jew then looked at the glowing furnace, over which he was presently to be stretched, and seeing no chance of his tormentor's relenting, his resolution gave way.
14 I would," said the Norman, somewhat relenting, "that I had known of this before.
15 Fanny thought she discerned in his standing there an indication of relenting, which encouraged her to another attempt, and she said, therefore, "It is a pity you should not join them."
Example Sentence:
1 When her stern father would not relent and allow her to marry Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett eloped with her suitor.
2 Afterwards she relented and let the children stay up late to watch TV.
3 Her parents eventually relented and let her go to the party.
4 He was cross at first, but later he relented.