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Which sentence uses the word relent/relented correctly?

A. It sometimes seemed that the storms would never relent.
B. Governor Carver urged the Pilgrims to relent to God for divine protection.
C. No family was left untouched by the diseases that relented through the colony.
D. The Pilgrim leaders relented with Massassoit and finally signed a peace treaty,

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A is the correct answer for this question
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Answer:

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Step-by-step explanation:

In this sentence, "the storms would never relent" means the storms would not decrease in intensity, or they would not weaken. A storm may be described as "unrelenting" if it won't die down.

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