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.

  • Pluck yew! at them.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Amid the continuing economic crisis in Asia, former Singapore leader Lee Kuan Yew (now senior minister in the Singapore government) said in an interview Sunday with Japan's main economic daily, Nihon Keizai Shimbun (or Nikkei ), that Japan and the United States must help the economic reconstruction of Indonesia, because the rest of Asia does not "have the strength to solve Indonesia's trade problems."


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