"yank" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There was a moment or so when nothing much happened, except that the dogs kept barking and yanking at their leashes, pulling some of the exhausted slaves from the trees into the clearing.
- "The problem is that the extreme faction within the Republican majority in Congress keeps yanking the debate farther and farther to the right."
- We can't let this guy keep yanking us around.
- "Mr. Daniels, you have been neglecting your sleep patterns once again- " "Only because you keep yanking us all back in here," Sage said under his breath.
- He kept yanking.
- He kept yanking at the cords trying to untangle the chute but nothing worked.
- I kept yanking it back and was hitting the front of the rim.
- Alison Kerry, a young drug runner from Key West, gets all the way to Seattle in Jenny Siler's "Easy Money" (Holt), but the tug of home keeps yanking her back.
- MY 2 1/2-year-old son, Adam, keeps yanking "The Nurturing Father" out of my hands as if to say, "Daddy, come on, you don't need that.
- Polanski keeps yanking us back and forth between cheerful and frightened.
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