Sample Sentences for
yoke
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

yoke as in:  the yoke of bondage

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They threw off the yoke of slavery.
yoke = oppressive burden
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    The yoke of oppression weighed heavily on the people, causing them to rise up in rebellion.
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    D—DESPICABLE A—ANGRY D—DUD OF A FATHER D—DISAPPPOINTMENT Y—YOKE AROUND MY NECK  (source)
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    If ever there had been a time for the American worker to cast off the yoke, surely that was it.  (source)
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    My guilt was a yoke around my neck.  (source)
    yoke = oppressive burden
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    She heard Rochelle mutter something like, Time to take the rubber out of your wallet, Bob, or she might have said Rob, but instead of a pale flexible sheath the boy took out his living thing, stiff and pulsing and ultraviolet, there it was, suddenly unbuttoned and in the world, pretty much the configuration Klara had imagined but so hot and real, independently alive, unyoked to the host, to the bearer, the wearer, and Rochelle was nervous because the boy did not have a rubber and Klara was nervous because the Japanese might invade China.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyoked means not and reverses the meaning of yoked. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    We are to eat here, he says, and he unyokes the bullocks to water them.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyokes means not and reverses the meaning of yokes. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Until the sun stood at high noon in heaven, spears bit on both sides, and the soldiers fell; but when the sun passed toward unyoking time, the Akhaians outfought destiny to prevail.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyoking means not and reverses the meaning of yoking. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "They pay a tribute of horses," he answered, "and send many yearly to Mordor, or so it is said; but they are not yet under the yoke."  (source)
    yoke = controlled and worked oppressively
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    But gold was suddenly nothing to Wang Lung when he looked at this ox, and he passed it over to the farmer's hand and he watched while the farmer unyoked the beast, and Wang Lung led it away with a rope through its nostrils, his heart burning with his possession.†  (source)
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    They were under a yoke, — I could free them: they were scattered, — I could reunite them: the independence, the affluence which was mine, might be theirs too.  (source)
    yoke = oppressive burden
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    Meanwhile Fritz, having unyoked the oxen and secured them to trees, hurried to his brother's assistance.†  (source)
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    Again, when, after the battle of Mohacs, we threw off the Hungarian yoke, we of the Dracula blood were amongst their leaders, for our spirit would not brook that we were not free.  (source)
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    There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees.†  (source)
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yoke as in:  oxen yoke

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    A yoke was used to connect the horses, so they could pull the carriage together.
    yoke = wood framework
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    To put all twenty yoke of us to the big gun as soon as Two Tails trumpets.  (source)
    yoke = pairs of connected animals
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    They loaded a cart with benjo waste—to be used as fertilizer, as was customary in Japan—then yoked themselves to the cart like oxen and pulled it to and from the farm.  (source)
    yoked = connected
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    The horses carried it off in cart-loads, the sheep dragged single blocks, even Muriel and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess-cart and did their share.  (source)
    yoked = connected (to pull together)
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    Anion stopped by the yoke, and Percy set to work with the reins and harness.  (source)
    yoke = a wooden frame used to control beasts of burden
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    Chacko lifted the fried eggs onto the toast, broke the brilliant, wobbling yokes and spread them over the strawberry jam with the back of his teaspoon.†  (source)
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    There, suspended by one hand between the baggage-car and the tender, with the other he loosened the safety chains; but, owing to the traction, he would never have succeeded in unscrewing the yoking-bar, had not a violent concussion jolted this bar out.†  (source)
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    We go across the level plain, twenty yoke of us, till we are unyoked again, and we graze while the big guns talk across the plain to some town with mud walls, and pieces of the wall fall out, and the dust goes up as though many cattle were coming home.  (source)
    unyoked = unharnessed
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    Long as morning rose and the blessed day grew stronger we stood and fought them off, massed as they were, but then, when the sun wheeled past the hour for unyoking oxen, the Cicones broke our lines and beat us down at last.  (source)
    unyoking = removing the framework used to control beasts of burden while working
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    Naked men yoked together and stumbling up rotted planks into a dark brig.†  (source)
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    All we needed to do was follow Him—the yoke was used for leading cattle or oxen, plowing or pulling a cart.  (source)
    yoke = a wooden frame used to control beasts of burden
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    As one, the peasants rushed forward, their eyes not on the patient, but on the money, their hats flying in the wind, their yokes forgotten.†  (source)
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    Then yoking mules and oxen to their wagons the people thronged before the city gates.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    When the officer took the yoke, Louie began tugging the chains, making the plane swoop up and down.  (source)
    yoke = a control apparatus for an airplane
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    The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full.  (source)
    yoke = a clothing item from which fabric is hung
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    She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.  (source)
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    The largest of them showed the last survivors of a defeated Valyrian army passing beneath the yoke and being chained.  (source)
    yoke = a structure under which defeated soldiers would march to symbolize their subjugation to the conqueror
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    "Paralysis" is a word that fascinates the young boy, quite apart from its meaning; he yokes it with "simony" and "gnomon" in a triad of words to obsess over.  (source)
    yokes = connects
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    Yoke on the further billows; hallo! a tandem, I drive the sea!  (source)
    Yoke = work
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    During the flight, they sat him in the copilot's seat while Louie hid under the navigator's table, next to the chains that linked the plane's yokes to the control surfaces.  (source)
    yokes = control apparatuses
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    Phil gripped the yoke, sweat streaming down his face.  (source)
    yoke = a control apparatus for an airplane
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    Then the weight of the stricken pilot on the yoke forced the Zero down, ducking under the bomber.  (source)
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    He put both feet on the yoke and pushed as hard as he could.  (source)
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    If Phil kept his feet on the yoke and pushed hard, he could stop the plane from flipping.  (source)
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    At the yoke was Paul Tibbets, a veteran bomber pilot.  (source)
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    Because pilots usually manned the yoke with their left hands while their right hands worked the other controls, B-24 pilots were instantly recognizable when shirtless, because the muscles on their left arms dwarfed those on their right arms.  (source)
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