Example sentences for: yield

How can you use “yield” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As an achiever, I constantly look for new techniques of achievement and seek to minimize behaviors with low achievement yield.

  • Variation of just a quarter inch in a sixty-inch width can yield a 0.42 percent change in cloth utilization.

  • Poly(A) +RNA was isolated from total RNA using the Promega Isolation System II (Promega, Madison, WI) following the manufacturer's instructions with a yield of 4.04 μg.

  • Retroviral packaging cells routinely yield viral supernatants with titers in the range of 10 5to 10 6cfu/ml or higher, and titers of up to 10 7cfu/ml may be achieved in some cases.

  • While it is acknowledged that such a method would not work well for books, the idea was that the number of occurrencies of a lemma (a technical though convenient term for the `thing--word or phrase--under study'), multiplied by, say the Audit Bureau of Circulation sworn circulation of a periodical would yield a figure that could legitimately be called its Exposure . Obviously, such a number would be far too large to manipulate readily, so, using a formula familiar to statisticians, it was normalized to produce a simple decimal number of only a few digits which I called the lemma's Exposure Index . The purpose of the exercise was to connect the frequency information with the language as it is used and perceived; in addition, the approach would serve to eliminate from consideration those materials which, though published, were little read, with a consequent low influence on the lexicon.


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