Example sentences for: yoke

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

  • We coax balking people like reluctant draft animals with carrot and stick , get them back into harness after a holiday, yoke them to co-workers like oxen, drive them hard as part of a team .

  • And as in Burma, the Philippines, and Indonesia, Japan appealed to Malay nationalism to throw off the Western imperialist yoke in a movement of Asian solidarity — an “Asia for the Asians” spearheaded by Japan’s Imperial Army.

  • The Spanish immediately began subjugating the Arawak population, many of whom died under the yoke of oppression and of diseases carried by the Europeans.

  • He was enthusiastic--too enthusiastic, he realizes now--to bring glorious Marxism to his suffering people, to free Cambodia from the yoke of Vietnamese invaders, to abolish the twin evils of Western materialism and class privilege.

  • Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead.


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