How to Use yin in a Sentence

yin

noun
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  • That’s not true of U.S. corporate bonds, the yin to stocks’ yang.
    — Richard Barley, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • That’s the yin and Yoan of the second baseman’s defense.
    — Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
  • Paired with a cropped white T-shirt, midi-skirt, and brogues, Gigi was the yin to Swift’s yang.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 21 June 2023
  • For every up there must be a down, for every yin there must be a yang.
    — Ted Crow, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 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
  • Each is the yin to the other’s yang, helping and annoying each other.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Opposite Gaga is Driver, the yin to her yang, tall, reserved and sober.
    — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • The tart and fruity dressing was the yin to the yang of the hearty mixture of heavy ingredients, creating balance in the salad.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 25 June 2021
  • 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
  • Cauliflower also gets a lift from a yin-and-yang approach — hot sauce and maple syrup.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 14 June 2018
  • The past few episodes have set up Carol and Morgan as a yin and yang of apocalypse coping, a divide that’s a bit too tidy for my taste.
    — Jeremy Egner, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2016
  • But what about neuromodulators like Xeomin or Botox—the yin to fillers’ yang?
    — Jolene Edgar, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Yin is a past chief of staff to Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2017
  • Yin is a past chief of staff to Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation.
    — David Klepper, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 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
  • In the previous Matrix films, Neo and Agent Smith are the only characters who can fly, a nod to their yin-and-yang existence.
    — Robert Daniels, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Not different in the diametrical yin-to-their-yang kind of way.
    — al, 8 July 2022
  • Alan is also an extremely important part of the show—the yin to Nadia's yang—so Charlie Barnett would be back as well.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 23 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • This yin-and-yang pair most definitely has a lot of love to give each other, as they can be seen snuggling with one another every night.
    — The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Allen compares his time studying music at Brigham Young University to a yin-and-yang symbol.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Allen compares his time studying music at Brigham Young University to a yin-and-yang symbol.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The calming yin to coffee’s battery acid-like yang, tea has long taken the second spot as people’s caffeinated hot beverage of choice — but no longer does that seem to be the case.
    — Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Triple slits therefore represent the yin and the yang of physics research—both fundamental and functional.
    — Urbasi Sinha, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2020
  • There was a good yin and yang balance to the beer, alternating between lipsmacking apricot and tangy sourness.
    — Todd Haefer, The (appleton, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2017
  • Complementing one another like yin is to yang, mamuthones echo the darkness, while issohadores rope in the light.
    — National Geographic, 6 Oct. 2017

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