How to Use yang in a Sentence

yang

noun
Definition of yangnext
  • And that’s the best part, that yin and yang of bloody red meat and black, fatty char.
    — Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2017
  • That’s not true of U.S. corporate bonds, the yin to stocks’ yang.
    — Richard Barley, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • The yin to their yang, white chocolate chips, are a staple as well.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
  • For every up there must be a down, for every yin there must be a yang.
    — Ted Crow, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The 76ers signed Jerryd Bayless last summer to be the yang to Ben Simmons’ yin.
    — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The patli, which is also known as a chakla, is the yin to the belan’s yang; one is very rarely sold or found without the other.
    — Khushbu Shah, Saveur, 26 Jan. 2016
  • One of traditional medicine’s central tenets is the balance of yin and yang within the body.
    — Sandy Ong, The Atlantic, 7 June 2017
  • Two green lions paw at an orange yin-yang, below a big yellow sun with rays of blue and red.
    — Wired, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Not a bro hug, but a full chest-to-chest embrace, Kelli’s Ray-Bans against Buckley’s yin-yang earlobe plugs.
    — Washington Post, 5 June 2018
  • And the yin and yang of shredding and exaggeration were the design strategies.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 2 May 2017
  • At a wedding, dragon and phoenix imagery is the classic way to embody the yin-yang of female and male energy.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The left-and-right or top-and-bottom format suggests either-or, before-and-after, yin-and-yang dramas.
    — David Pagel, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Feel free to go funky with a ’90s yin and yang ring from humble Overstock, or pare it back with a simple silver version from Body Candy.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 6 July 2018
  • That song just another unseen hand reaching up the Cookie ying-yang.
    — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
  • A disruptor of play combined with a goal scoring midfielder and creator, like ying and yang.
    — SI.com, 29 July 2017
  • For gai yang, Isan-style barbecue chicken, thigh meat is bathed in milk muddled with lemongrass and galangal.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2016
  • South Carolina will wear its all-black uniforms while Kentucky will counter with its all-whites in a battle of ying and yang in the clothing department.
    — Nick Krueger, ajc, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Although the sentiment of triumph and perseverance was the same, the French lyrics and more mellow rendition make these two songs ying and yang.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 13 June 2018
  • Daniel and Zorn are the yin and yang of Alexa, the former responsible for the technology that keeps Alexa running and the latter in charge of the emotional response Alexa evokes in users.
    — Carmel Deamicis, Marie Claire, 26 June 2017
  • Nadal is on the verge of equaling Federer, his longtime tennis yang who has become a very friendly rival.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The '90s were a good time for spiritually minded jewelry—mood rings, ying-yang symbols and evil eyes ruled the costume world.
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Feb. 2016
  • For instance, when the worm embryo is still a single cell, proteins on its outer membrane create two uneven, yin-and-yang-like domains that tell the cell where to split.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Triple slits therefore represent the yin and the yang of physics research—both fundamental and functional.
    — Urbasi Sinha, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Some of Seoul’s largest guestrooms offer a yin-yang harmony of the hi-tech toys for which Park Hyatt is known and simple comforts like the enveloping pillow top beds.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Scangarello needs Freeman’s yin to Lindsay’s yang to keep opponents off tilt.
    — Kyle Fredrickson, The Denver Post, 22 July 2019
  • With its allees of shady trees and easy-to-follow formal layout, the Giardini is the yang to the yin of Venice proper, a maze of passageways, pavement and small piazzas called campi.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
  • The magnolia’s civilized splendor made a pleasing contrast — yin and yang.
    — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 1 Apr. 2017
  • The power between red and black showcase the unique Japanese aesthetics and illustrate a yin-and-yang balance of stillness and movement.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
  • The author, Jessica Nutik Zitter, is a physician who specializes in both critical care medicine and palliative care, the yin and yang of medicine.
    — Judith Newman, New York Times, 16 June 2017
  • There’s a lot of warmth in I.M., and a sense of domesticity, too; the yang to the yin of Mizrahi’s theatrical sensibility and irrepressible ebullience.
    — Vogue, 26 Feb. 2019

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