How to Use yak in a Sentence

yak

noun

• Made from the milk of yaks, these chews are high in protein and low in fat.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2023
• Dipak would pull me to safety when a yak tried to nudge me off a cliff.
  — Michael Clinton, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
• The process of making the yak chews results in a product that is low in fat and calories.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2023
• Just to be clear, this battery would weigh as much as a female yak.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2024
• It’s also sold on the streets as a snack, with tiny cuts of the cheese strung onto yak-hair necklaces.
  — Popular Science, 4 June 2020
• The dairy used could come from a yak, a buffalo or a goat, but most often South Asians use cows’ milk.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2022
• Its hair is sourced from a yak -- the only statue in the museum that can boast that feature.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 27 Aug. 2020
• Traffic jams of ornery yaks and deliriously tired hikers force us to adopt a stop-start pace.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2023
• Most of the actors are local yak herders who have never seen the world beyond their village.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022
• Parents want their children to be more than Himalayan yak herders.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Feb. 2022
• All of the wigs in the film were handmade, from human, yak and horse hair, and Pegoretti used a dying technique from the 1800s to give them a vintage look.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• That year, a runner had fallen and broken his jaw, and another runner had gotten in the way of a yak and went off a cliff.
  — Michael Clinton, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
• So where do Oru’s origami ‘yaks have a leg up on inflatable options?
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2023
• People can decide for themselves and yak about it all winter.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• The good news is, there are some incredible yaks for $1000 or less that cover just about every type of fishing.
  — Jerry Audet, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
• The yak butter and rock shelters and people who sheltered her were intertwined with her.
  — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2023
• The video shows the robotic yak being put through its paces across a desert with a person controlling it by remote control.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2022
• An elite Mongol woman buried with a birch-bark hat and silk robes depicting a golden dragon was found to have drunk yak milk.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• Indeed, speaking of stress and similar challenges can be like wearing a yak on your back.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 29 May 2021
• The vast majority of the Delmarva millponds are classic ideal waters for the yaks.
  — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2023
• His classroom – which, yes, houses a yak – is initially without a blackboard and chalk.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Feb. 2022
• Crafted by Japanese puppet maker Ichiro Komuro, the puppets are made of wood, wire, cloth, leather and yak hair and stand less than 1 foot tall.
  — Kelsie Smith, CNN, 17 Oct. 2020
• The Yardang is a blend of 70 percent merino, complemented by 30 percent Himalayan yak wool.
  — Scott Gilbertson Adrienne So, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2023
• Twenty years later, the legend of Tenacious D itself seems more remarkable than, say, being able to kill a yak from 200 yards a way with mind bullets.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2021
• Elise Wortley pulled her yak wool coat tight around her as the mountain temperature dropped to minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• While the majority of yaks are domesticated, wild yaks still exist in small groups.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• Maybe Jack's yak-herding videos on Instagram go viral — and having the company's logo on those cowbells turned out to be great marketing.
  — Mark Robinson, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• But the Bhutanese government took the proverbial yak by the horns and last September put into effect a steep new visitor tax: $200 per person per day, on top of all other expenses.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 8 June 2023
• With the help of a farmer in Pennsylvania — the source of some of the yak on the menu — and a taxidermist, there’s no forgetting the establishment, a sprawling bar and dining room with mountain views (courtesy of a colorful mural, that is).
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• But the government was forced to reverse the decision after expedition operators complained that there were not enough porters and yaks.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 7 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024