Yielding in a sentence

Yielding at last, the tobacco jetted up into his lungs and nostrils, driving out the smoke of burning cow dung that had filled them as he rode through the bazaar.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

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Dictionary

Merriam-Webster
— PRODUCTIVE
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Macmillan
— soft and easy to move or bend
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Collins
— A yielding surface or object is quite soft and will move or bend rather than staying stiff if you put pressure on it.
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Other Word Forms

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Usage

1 use of ‘yielding’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster