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Example sentences for: yanked

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Grass was yanked out by its roots and tossed onto the compost heap.
(Recently, there has been a rush to fill the vacuum left by the antihistamine Seldane, which was yanked from the market after eight people died when Seldane reacted adversely with other drugs.)
This leads me to one conclusion: The vast, exciting run-up in the stock market, yanked along by the (here's a journalistic cliché ripe for the executing) "tech-heavy Nasdaq," may not have been irrational exuberance at all; it may just have been investors' reaction to the tech industry's hundred-billion-dollar holdup of the rest of the country to "fix the bug."
Television dipped its pinkie toe in, yanked it out as if scalded, and then plunged back in.
Ross had already been yanked off the 1998 gubernatorial ticket by Gov.