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Example sentences for: yew
How can you use “yew” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Some Tassos ( tasso yew tree, anvil, or badger) made their homes near an arboreal landmark or were ironworkers, but others tended to sneak around at night like certain members of the weasel family.
Those skills have been handed down to present-day craftsmen working in yew wood, and the old timbered houses are exquisitely maintained in traditional style.
Pluck yew! at them.
The recent twist has been to note the fact that longbows are traditionally made of yew wood, and claim that the act of drawing the bowstring was called plucking yew; the victorious English not only waved their fingers at the French, but shouted We can still pluck yew!
The most striking recent development has been the popularity of the pluck yew story, which conflates the origin of fuck with an earlier piece of folklore about the origin of the offensive backhand two-finger gesture.