jerked
Example Sentences
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What worries me," he went on, "is that the boys were yerked out of bed, and carried off, and then their own families went to sleep again.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Harris, Joel Chandler
Let him never know thou canst tell one letter from its fellow, and"—there he yerked us in the ribs with his scabbard—"watch him, both of ye.
From Puck of Pook's Hill by Kipling, Rudyard
