yoked

Example Sentences

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Yoked with that mind is a clarity of purpose, tinged with a belief in the divine, which can resemble a kind of innocence.

From New York Times • May 10, 2023

Yoked by an intense, shared past, their bond runs deep.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2021

Yoked shirts with mother-of-pearl snaps on the plackets and cuffs; embroidered roses; stiff blue jeans turned up at the cuffs; a rainbow of cowboy boots, sliding across the floor.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2016

Yoked in knowledge and remorse, now we come to rest, Laughing at old villainies that Time has turned to jest, Pardoning old necessities no pardon can efface— That undying sin we shared in Rouen marketplace.

From The Years Between by Kipling, Rudyard

Yoked the oxen to it and I plowed all afternoon.

From The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 by Sellar, Gordon