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Example sentences for "yang"

Lexicographically close words:
yammering; yams; yana; yance; yander; yanked; yanking; yanne; yanza; yanzi
  1. It was on the edge of the big main road which leads from Liao-yang to Ta-shi-chiao.

  2. One of the houses I knew well; in its square open yard, in which the rude furniture of toil lay strewn about, I had halted more than once for my midday meal, when riding from Liao-yang to the South.

  3. This proved to be the Yang Wei, which had run aground.

  4. As we advanced to Hai-yang Island the distant smoke of some steamer caused the admiral to despatch a cruiser to intercept the vessel, but whatever she was she escaped.

  5. General Yang was killed at Ting-hsing, Hsien, near Paotingfu, either by his own soldiers or the Boxers.

  6. I am inclined to think that the Japanese mind, as expressed in the simple tenets of the Shinto religion, was particularly open to the reception of Yang Ming's precepts.

  7. It states that, according to the Si Yang Y Shu, a one-horned spiritual lamb was born in the Ping Shen district, and in the twenty-first year of Kai Yuen.

  8. The commentary states that the tip of the horn is fleshy, and that the King Yang chapter of the "Spring and Autumn Annals" of Confucius defines it as a horned Kiun.

  9. The Kung Yang Chw'en says the Kiun also has horns.

  10. While Yang Sun,[241] of the Ming dynasty (commencing A.

  11. Yang Sun of the Ming dynasty (commencing A.

  12. They knew in Ping Yang that I was after the emerald Buddha.

  13. I inquired as to its history, through my servant, and was informed that it had been brought to Ping Yang many centuries before, by the priest who brought the relic from Thibet and founded the temple.

  14. In this dress, with shaven head and staff in hand, he had arrived, alone, in Ping Yang one evening at dusk and at once proceeded to the temple, the location of which I had carefully described to him.

  15. Chong Mong-ju corrupted the very palace guards, the Tiger Hunters of Pyeng-Yang whom Kim commanded.

  16. There was a general confusion, in the midst of which Yang began to fire his pistol.

  17. It was his opinion that Jack had hired the Indians to fish for him, and bribed Yang to hold his tongue.

  18. The moon smiled upon them; an owl hooted enviously; Jack softly whistled a strain from Schubert, while Yang made the towering rocks echo and re-echo to the joyous banging of the pistol.

  19. Then cries for Ah Yang and the others would follow.

  20. Yang had been induced to come by motives purely sordid; but the others, aside from seeing the wondrous valley, had various reasons for making the journey.

  21. Yang begged to try the rod, and by reason of his imitative faculties might have made good use of it, but he had to content himself with the net.

  22. He tried to help Yang with breakfast, but was told by that dignitary to "giv' us a rest," and so humbly retired.

  23. What a dinner Yang and Jack had in readiness for the party that night!

  24. Unselfish, devoted, and charitable as Yang claimed to be, he could hardly pretend to heroism.

  25. Yang was mounted on a mustang, while the doctor and Jack trudged through the dust.

  26. Early Thursday morning, before Yang or the birds were stirring, Jack sauntered forth to his morning bath in the icy waters of the river.

  27. Then Yang spoke: "You think you heap smart.

  28. In the famous temple ten li from Tali-fu is an effigy to the Yang Daren who figured conspicuously during the Mohammedan Rebellion.

  29. The yang gwan certainly came off best, and the following morning, as the Chinese gwan with his retinue of six chairs and about one hundred and fifty men departed, the yang gwan smiled a happy farewell which was not effusively reciprocated.

  30. Past the Chinese right wing swept the swift Yoshino, pouring in the shells from her rapid-fire guns on the unprotected vessels there posted, one of which, the Yang Wei, was soon in flames.

  31. Next day, Mr. Yang actually met a Taoist priest sitting beneath a willow tree; and, making him a bow, asked him to prescribe for his malady.

  32. By-and-by Yang died: and some years afterwards when Lien was on his death-bed, he cried out that Yang was bribing the devils in hell to torture him.

  33. There indeed Mr. Yang found it, at which he was so much astonished that he addressed the priest as though he had been an angel.

  34. Then Mr. Yang knew that his dream was being fulfilled; and going down on his knees offered the priest all the money he had.

  35. K'u Ta-yu was a native of the Yang district, and managed to get a military appointment under the command of Tsu Shu-shun.

  36. An official, named Chai, was appointed to a post at Jao-chou, and on his way thither crossed the Po-yang lake.

  37. An interesting addition to this dual list is the view of a modern Chinaman, that the Yang and Yin principles refer to positive and negative electricity!

  38. Yang and Yin, in Chinese religion; belief of the modern Chinese concerning, 286.

  39. It is thus evident that the cult of heaven and earth is indissolubly linked to that of the Yang and Yin, the male and the female principle, and that in China the following chains of association concerning duality were formed: Zenith.

  40. Gitisuk sa manggugubat ang íyang bangkaw sa atubángan sa rayna, The warrior planted his spear before the queen.

  41. Misíngit kug písus sa íyang pusta, I put in one peso together with his bet.

  42. Nakímay siya pagkabálì sa íyang kamut, He got a twisted wrist when he broke his hand.

  43. Mikíbut ang íyang ngábil pagyamyam, Her lips moved as she uttered her prayers.

  44. Nabughaw ang íyang sinínà kay gihayhay sa ínit, Her dress faded because she hung it in the sun.

  45. Puting kamisadintru nga íyang gipalugpítan (gipalugpitan), A white shirt which he had tucked in.

  46. Naput-uk ang ákung buut sa íyang gisulti, I was dumbfounded with what she said.

  47. Ang tibuuk níyang bánay nahibuylug sa kadáut, His whole family suffered from the misfortune.

  48. Nadisgrasya ang tanan níyang swildu sa súgal, He lost all his money in gambling.

  49. Walà sila muila sa íyang kinaadman, They did not recognize his wisdom.

  50. This method of commanding an army will seem somewhat peculiar; but those who have lived among the Chinese will see that the military genius of Yang was founded on a thorough knowledge of the soldiers he had to deal with.

  51. The Batourou Yang was sent against the English, in their last war with the Chinese; but there it would appear his tactics did not avail.

  52. Youen is the name of the male, Yang that of the female: Youen-Yang their common denomination.

  53. The Mandarin Yang was loaded with favours by the Emperor, for having so happily terminated the war of Khachghar.

  54. During our travels in China we inquired of several Mandarins, how it was that the Batourou Yang had not exterminated the English: the answer everywhere was, that he had had compassion on them.

  55. I am anchored off the mouth of the river Han, which separates Hankow and Han-yang on the left bank of the Yangtze.

  56. We landed near its mouth on the Han-yang side, and walked to that town, which is a Foo or prefectoral city, and walled.

  57. At K'un-yang there lived a wealthy man named Tseng.

  58. Sidenote: Concentration at Liaoyang] It now became plain to Kuropatkin that the Japanese could not be stopped before Liao-yang itself was reached.

  59. Criticism had followed the victory of Liao-yang because, despite the awful defeat administered, the battle had been indecisive.

  60. At last, after four or five days, the force reached Ping-Yang and proceeded with all expedition to fortify it against possible attack.

  61. Feng-hwang-cheng is situated at a mountain pass on the Liao-yang road, at a distance of about 25 miles from the Yalu.

  62. At Liao-yang the strategy of both generals had failed, and in a less degree the same result was reached at Sha-ho; for Oyama's initial success could not be followed up to its legitimate and triumphant conclusion.

  63. Chao-yang is a larger city than Swatow; the Chinese count it as containing a population of three hundred thousand.

  64. We returned from Chao-yang very sober and thoughtful, for our visit had been a revelation of appalling needs.

  65. Thus a fourteenth-century writer described the Yin and Yang as evolving by their mutual interaction Izanagi and Izanami, the earlier generations of the Nihongi story being omitted.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.