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:

The kids who are in charge of pulling the rope from below yank it too soon.
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.
The arguments con: 1) The good parents will yank their kids out of bad schools, making these schools worse and leaving kids with indifferent or helpless parents trapped in them.
Since Republic still owned the copyrighted story behind It's a Wonderful Life and had also purchased exclusive rights to the movie's copyrighted music, it was able to essentially yank the movie out of the public domain: It claimed that since Wonderful Life relied on these copyrighted works, the film could no longer be shown without the studio's blessing.
As in a real family, some characters struggle for ascendance, while one or two Prospero figures believe they can yank the others around.