yoke

Example Sentences

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It featured a female panther resting its paws on a severed head, and was probably attached to the body of a carriage or wagon or to the yoke, which hitched draught animals to the vehicle.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

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

Eating starch, choosing when to tackle the yoke, sewing, picking, cooking, chopping.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison