yoke

Example Sentences

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Someone has to yoke the memory of Iran’s pre-1979 past to a live possibility of a better future.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

The guard video, shot over the pilot’s left shoulder, shows him aggressively working the yoke to keep the enormous plane airborne and on target to release a drenching stream of fire retardant.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

On another page an elderly farmer in the Fujian Province of China struggles under a shoulder yoke of watering cans.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2024

The “Texas is back!” meme has hung like a yoke on the Bevo steer mascot since 2016.

From Washington Times • Dec. 28, 2023

This was to yoke two bulls he had, whose feet were of bronze and whose breath was flaming fire, and with them to plow a field.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton