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Example sentences for "relent"

Lexicographically close words:
relegates; relegating; relegation; releif; releive; relented; relenting; relentings; relentless; relentlessly
  1. Yea, they whom true relent could never touch-- These fierce Numidians, hearing our mishaps, Weep floods of moan to wail our wretched fates.

  2. What stony breast, or what hard heart of flint Would not relent to see this dreary sight?

  3. Lo, this before your eyes so will I show, That ye shall justly say with one accord We must relent and yield; for now we know Love rules the world, love only is the lord.

  4. Will ye relent And yield to mercy whilst 'tis offer'd you, Or let a rebel lead you to your deaths?

  5. And therefore yet relent and save my life.

  6. Hath this lovely face Rul'd like a wandering planet over me, And could it not enforce them to relent That were unworthy to behold the same?

  7. His whole conduct appeared so cruelly tyrannical that most people expected him to relent before the day of eviction arrived.

  8. You'll ne'er relent nor listen to my plea.

  9. He had a perfect belief in his own mind that his father would relent before very long.

  10. Would his aunt relent towards him now that he was a Lieutenant-Colonel and a C.

  11. If Miss Crawley did not forgive them at present, she might at least relent on a future day.

  12. We play with light loves in the portal, And wince and relent and refrain; Loves die, and we know thee immortal, Our Lady of Pain.

  13. Not for their love shall Fate retire, Nor they relent for our desire, Nor the graves open for their call.

  14. The gods heard her dying prayer and answered it by making the hard hearts of the parents relent so far that they consented to bury the lovers together.

  15. 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.

  16. If Alicia would only relent escape might yet be possible.

  17. He knew his pater too well to expect that he would relent so soon.

  18. Church 1 Whom when Venus saw so sore displeased, 2 She inly sorry was, and gan relent inly > inwardly gan > did relent > ?

  19. Ne ever > Nor ever; never may > can relent > soften, cause to relent 306.

  20. Whom such when Guyon saw, he drew him neare, 8 And somewhat gan relent his earnest pace, His stubborne brest gan secret pleasaunce to embrace.

  21. But if you be coming to plead off paying for a place you won't occupy, your journey is useless: I never relent in exacting my due from any one.

  22. So now better your ways and your doings, and hearken to the Voice of the Lord, that the Lord may relent of the evil which He hath spoken against you.

  23. He will not relent nor pardon it, nor listen to prayer for it.

  24. Peradventure they will hearken and turn every man from his evil way, and I shall relent of the evil which I am purposing to do to them because of the evil of their doings.

  25. This God may not be cruel when all is done; he may relent and be good to us a la fin des fins.

  26. I could to you a short discourse impart, That would relent the direst stony hart, VVer't not offence.

  27. He will relent--he will relent for the sake of his own Cooleen Bawn.

  28. Papa, if I accompany you--supposing that we are taken--will relent for my sake.

  29. This did not suit Iago’s purpose, for he was afraid lest Othello should relent before his revenge was accomplished.

  30. Antigonus respectfully denied that he had set on his wife, and the other lords confirmed what he said, and further besought on their knees that Leontes would relent from his horrible purpose.

  31. I never thought you would be the one to desert me," said Rose with a reproachful look, thinking it best not to relent too soon, though she was quite ready to do it when she saw how sincerely distressed he was.

  32. So you'd like them to wait and work and keep on loving till they made you relent or plainly proved that it was no use.

  33. If they were good as well as constant, I think I should relent in time.

  34. Voice-of-the-Gods: I do not wish the King to relent at sunset.

  35. Ludibras: He is sure to relent at sunset.

  36. I will spare no exertion to induce Colonel de St. Severan to relent towards you; and Marie, I dare say, will be a still warmer and a more powerful advocate for you than any one else.

  37. My dear father, I feel sure, is too fond of me not to relent at last.

  38. The pirates encounter the girls about the same time, and propose to marry them, but when the General arrives and announces that he is an orphan, they relent and allow the girls to go.

  39. He brings word that Venus is angry at what has been going on, but will relent if Helen will return with him to her shrine and sacrifice white heifers.

  40. Then Num brought her food and said to her, "O my mother, eat of my victual and pray that God may relent towards me and have mercy on me.

  41. Passion and soul-destroying grief I suffer, and unto Desire, that knoweth not relent nor end, am fallen a prey.

  42. So taste of the anguish that knows no relent And be with the rest of the wolven forspent!

  43. So haply yet he may relent and put away despite.

  44. None should therefore relent or think it gain if they go away without further danger to us.

  45. He is a cunning old knave, and as soon as he has recovered from the fright into which the appearance of an armed force precipitated him, he will relent and do something terrible.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "relent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abate; accede; accept; acquiesce; assent; bend; capitulate; comply; consent; ebb; fall; forbear; forgive; give; melt; moderate; obey; pardon; relax; relent; remit; reprieve; resign; slacken; spare; submit; succumb; swallow; take; thaw; unbend; wane; yield