Example sentences for: yanked

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

  • (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.)

  • Television dipped its pinkie toe in, yanked it out as if scalded, and then plunged back in.

  • The bareness is enhanced by a drape that seems yanked down on purpose to expose the bottom 8 inches of skin over the right kidney.

  • 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."

  • President Clinton himself decided to reject her demand that this ad be yanked off the air.


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