Words similar to yank

Example sentences for: yank

How can you use “yank” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But then he pulls this: trying to yank a museum's funding because he doesn't like a picture that's going to be hung on the wall.
He spent most of his life trying to impose order on the chaos of the emerging American market--partly because the United States was still dependent on foreign capital, and European investors tended to yank their money out whenever things got too crazy here.
As in a real family, some characters struggle for ascendance, while one or two Prospero figures believe they can yank the others around.
Two years later, the men who went home are informed of what happened after they boarded the plane: Police discovered their leftover hashish (purchased for a ridiculously low sum in American dollars and tossed into the garbage as they were leaving) and imprisoned the remaining Yank.
He is so excitable that I have to yank him out of the way of an oncoming car when he gets too wrapped up in one of his soliloquies.