They had known right off that he was one of them: subtle, easygoing, able to yield gracefully when it was necessary to yield.

She no longer dared to refuse credence to Emily's story but she could not yield gracefully.

A good captain had to know when to yield gracefully and cut her losses.

One can yield gracefully over big matters.

A man yielding gracefully to the passage of time without getting all stirred up about it.

Once Hulk realized that his bluff had failed, he would yield gracefully.

The "science," in fact, allowed a resistant medical profession to yield gracefully to the reformers.

Certain folk do not yield gracefully to my instructions; they thereby incur penalties.

But Tocsin would not yield gracefully, if at all.

My dear boy," said de Jars to the youth, "we are caught, and may as well yield gracefully.