relent
Example Sentences
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I’m tempted to camp out on her front porch until she relents.
From Literature
Now, it seems, the nuclear engineers are relenting.
From BBC
But even that toll hasn’t led the Kremlin to relent.
Advocates say they plan to continue pressing the U.S. government, even though many lack optimism that Washington will ever relent.
From Los Angeles Times
In the end, he relented and removed the limb by cutting only the rot, below the usual line of living tissue.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
