The word “yet” functions as an adverb, conjunction, or noun depending on context. As an adverb, it means “still” or “up to now.” As a conjunction, it introduces contrast, similar to “but.” Writers use it to express possibility, expectation, or contradiction. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “yet” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for Yet
I was then a child of but five years, yet I well remember the tall, dark, smooth-faced, athletic man whom I called Uncle Jack.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24 words, 126 characters
I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that some day I shall die the real death from which there is no resurrection.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
37 words, 178 characters
I have often heard my father caution him against his wild recklessness, but he would only laugh, and say that the tumble that killed him would be from the back of a horse yet unfoaled.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
35 words, 184 characters
I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
52 words, 239 characters
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