yanked; yanking; yanks
: to pull on something with a quick vigorous movement
1
: to pull or extract with a quick vigorous movement
2
: to remove in or as if in an abrupt manner
yanked the story from the evening edition
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Examples of yank in a Sentence
Verb
He yanked the door shut.
She yanked on the dog's leash.
Noun (1)
had to give the shoe a good yank to get it off
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Eric Boodman, STAT, 28 May 2024
Martinez, who is undocumented, hadn’t heard that IHSS could be yanked away until a reporter mentioned it.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
Sean Evans, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2024
Now the big question is whether all the regulators pulling on the buckles and loops of Boeing’s straitjacket, with a potential yank from Justice to come, will seriously delay what looked like the start of strong comeback.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
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Verb
But in all of these stories, someone’s wishes were disregarded, some measure of control over their own body yanked away.
—Eric Boodman, STAT, 28 May 2024
Martinez, who is undocumented, hadn’t heard that IHSS could be yanked away until a reporter mentioned it.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
Noun
Only the snarl of the 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 will give away that this wagon’s packing 603 horsepower and 627 lb-ft of yank.
—Sean Evans, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2024
Now the big question is whether all the regulators pulling on the buckles and loops of Boeing’s straitjacket, with a potential yank from Justice to come, will seriously delay what looked like the start of strong comeback.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
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“Yank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yank. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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