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Example sentences for "yet they"

  • Though in appearance an uncomfortable sort of sport, yet they engage in it readily, seem to enjoy it much, and express their eagerness by barking every time they raise their heads above the water to breathe.

  • Our sportsmen met with but bad success; for though the bay swarmed with flocks of ducks of various kinds, and Greenland pigeons, yet they were so shy that they could not come within shot of them.

  • It is remarkable, that though we saw no sea-horses on the body of the ice, yet they were in herds, and in greater numbers on the detached fragments, than we had ever observed before.

  • It still continued to make the same loud and terrible noise; and though the Kamtschadales were persuaded it was mortally wounded, and could get no farther, yet they thought it most advisable not to rouse it again for the present.

  • Yet they do not well who despise the discriminative faculty in us; for being great, it comprehends all sensibles, and attains to things divine.

  • They were not robust, nor large of frame, yet they had an aspect of hardy endurance.

  • They were not the most elegant or refined of companions, yet they made a very welcome addition to the limited society of the village.

  • For, no matter if the people are living in appearance, yet they may be dead in reality.

  • The cloud raineth, roses and hyacinths grow; the plain and meadow, the garden and trees become green and blossom; yet they do not realize the results and outcome of all these.

  • Although all the little incidents must be heard, yet they must be put off when the great events make their appearance; and surely such a circumstance as that which brought Dobbin to Brighton, viz.

  • The people in these countries are very wicked and covetous, thieves and murderers, killing the merchants unless they travel in caravans, yet they profess to follow the law of Mahomet.

  • In old times, valiant men passed through all these countries and prospered; yet they had to contend with most valiant opponents, whom God hath now destroyed out of the earth.

  • Yet they say, "The God of Mercy hath begotten issue from the angels.

  • And God hath abounded to some of you more than to others in the supplies of life; yet they to whom He hath abounded, impart not thereof to the slaves whom their right hands possess, so that they may share alike.

  • Yet they say, "When will this menace be made good?

  • Yet they took if for a God and became offenders!

  • They make up an account fairly adequate to the manifoldness of the book; yet they may be summed up in three ideas, together constituting the moral which this history of the expansion of Christianity aims at bringing home to its readers.

  • But it is impossible to understand the feelings by which this cult is prompted, for although they worship the animal after their fashion and set up its head in their villages, yet they trap it, kill it, eat it and sell its skin.

  • Yet they play an important and an increasing part in public work, because they help to maintain a constant voltage on the mains, and can be used to distribute the load on the running machinery over a much greater fraction of the day.

  • Yet they may be called participial adjectives, because they have the termination, and embrace the form, of participles.

  • Yet they absolutely refuse doing so, one with another.

  • Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as is truly pious.

  • Yet they do not serve for an accurate division of the pronouns; because it often happens, that a substitute which commonly represents the noun in one of these ways, will sometimes represent it in an other.

  • Yet they are of such a similar nature, as readily to mix and blend.

  • S: And if you invite them to guidance, they do not hear; and you see them looking towards you, yet they do not see.

  • P: Yet they ascribe as partners unto Him the jinn, although He did create them, and impute falsely, without knowledge, sons and daughters unto Him.

  • Yet they turn (their faces) away from them!

  • S: Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year, yet they do not turn (to Allah) nor do they mind.

  • Yet they (Profess to) study the (same) Book.

  • Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

  • Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

  • Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

  • Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

  • Fenn has just been delivered out of prison; yet they ventured to brave the storm, and in this year, although the lions prowled before the porch, a number were added to the church.

  • Yet he saith now he giveth it to them; as if they were now also in the very act of taking possession, when as yet they were on the other side Jordan.

  • Now, though it is not proper to say they were forgiven to him, because they were purged from him by merit; yet they may be said to be forgiven us, because we receive this benefit by grace.

  • Yet they surrender to passion, wildly or grimly or gaily; Yet they surrender to pride, counting her precious and queenly; Yet they surrender to knowledge, preening their feathers serenely.

  • Although buildings were observed covering the whole top of the hill, yet they were in two principal groups.

  • Yet they seem to have had some idea of a higher policy than that.

  • Though they date back to the Neolithic Age, yet they so exactly meet the wants of a rude people that they were occupied down to historic times.

  • Yet they were so opposed to all that had been believed previously, that but few took the pains to investigate for themselves.

  • Yet they do not place happiness in all sorts of pleasures, but only in those that in themselves are good and honest.

  • Yet they seemed a great many to one who saw them lying there.

  • Yet they were to learn that the accredited correspondent, an expert at his profession, working in harmony with the experts of the staff, let no military secrets pass.

  • Indefinite masses as yet they are, under their night- black plumes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yet they" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolutely nothing; are very; conduct towards; fancy ball; future time; kiss them; may here; might not; now called; opening the; other churches; representing the; serious matter; spiritual kingdom; take offence; thousand thousand; tradition concerning; with others; yet another; yet been; yet she; yet still; yet there; yet they; yet this; yet with