The slipway felt, not hard, but yielding beneath his body, and there was only the vaguest sense of motion.

The grassy slope yielded beneath each step; still, she kept her dress shoes on.

He pulled again, ignoring the pain of his back and sides as the new scar tissue yielded beneath the strain.

He seemed to fall for hours, slowly, weightlessly until he landed upon a surface which yielded beneath him.

They stood in a small room, on a spongy floor which yielded beneath their feet.

He went up the stairs to a doorway hung with white furs that yielded beneath them a strip of light.

A fragment yielding beneath the impact of temperature change, perhaps?

The earth seemed to yield beneath them like an elastic couch as he and Sephora sank down.

He was in a small room, and as he walked across it, the floor yielded slightly beneath his feet.