How to Use yoke in a Sentence

yoke

1 of 2 noun

• Not pulling back on the yoke to try to get the nose up.
  — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 6 July 2019
• The thing that was attractive to me was the print, the snaps, and the yoke.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 24 Aug. 2017
• Each aircraft has a yoke, which rides the back of the fuselage and holds the pivots for the swing wings.
  — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2020
• The paperboard yoke folds over the top of cans and has finger holes.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2022
• Rotate the shirt to iron the side seam, back and shoulder yoke, other side seam and rest of front.
  — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 7 May 2021
• The leather yoke at the front chest and upper back give it the authentic workman’s feel.
  — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2022
• Fleurs-de-lis decorated the yoke of her black-and-white dress.
  — John Pope, NOLA.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The Plaid is a zombie at the limit, with nothing coming up through the two girthy grips at the end of the steering yoke.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 8 Dec. 2021
• There is just the thin stick, the voice, and the single chain with ring that runs from the yoke to behind the animals where the sled is attached.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 14 Sep. 2017
• The idea is that on ball impact, a big force is applied to the yoke, caused by the strings pulling it toward the center of the racket.
  — Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• That means the hoop section comes in lime-green, with the yoke and grip now pistachio colored.
  — Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• East Germans were freed from the dull yoke of communism.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
• Unpredictable when driven hard, brakes no match for the power, the yoke is a joke.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 27 July 2022
• The front axles may contain a wheel end yoke that was not properly welded to the axle tube end.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
• The name refers to the long, ropelike rings once used to tether horses and yoke oxen back from the fields.
  — Stacy Adimando, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2017
• During the week that Utah marked a year under the threat of the coronavirus, the yoke of the pandemic has begun to lift.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Mar. 2021
• The elastic faux-wrap waist is comfy, while the ruffles along the hem and front yoke add plenty of volume.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
• Tidbit: Every branch has an ox yoke and a horseshoe over the door and a traffic light over the restrooms.
  — Tom Sietsema, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Irene feels burdened by the yoke of race, but Clare recognizes that race itself is a joke.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• But as Paige and other black men slipped out from the yoke of Jim Crow for a short moment in the sun, Trujillo showed his hand.
  — Paul Dickson, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
• In Maggie, Roth found an excuse to slip off the yoke forever.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• There's no doubt that the Egyptians were chafing under the yoke of their foreign monarchs.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2017
• At our nation’s founding, America was the refuge for colonists seeking to throw off the yoke of the British empire.
  — Andrew Tisch, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• The steering’s re-centering force is sufficient to make the yoke slip from your grip.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 24 June 2021
• But this yoke may come with the Kremlin’s new preeminence in the region.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• And Hill has never had to carry nearly so heavily the yoke of Trump.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2020
• The grand arc of the Star Wars series is about how the scrappy Rebels fight the yoke of Imperial oppression.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2017
• More than two centuries ago, Haitians fought to throw off the yoke of colonial France and bring an end to to one of the world’s most brutal slave colonies, which had brought France great wealth.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2021
• For his next trick, Hall will release a video of himself doing a 500-pound yoke carry for five hours across a dry lake bed.
  — Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2022
• The outer edge, skimming the yoke and slithering over the shoulders, determines where things stand.
  — Melvin Backman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023

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yoke

2 of 2 verb

• The two oxen were yoked together.
• And yet, the Grand Canyon remains yoked to the present in one key respect.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• Well, guess what, boys and girls: Lincecum is back, and he's yoked as all hell now, too.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• But more important than all that is the fact that I’m ripped, yoked, jacked, and swole, brother!
  — Eric Farwell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
• Like Jaylon, his parents have yoked their future to faith in God.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2020
• Who is this dude that comes back on the (aircraft) carrier, yoked from lifting weights?
  — Don Norcross, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Whatever your needs, there’s a joystick or yoke to suit your needs and budget.
  — Harry Rabinowitz and Matt Ng, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023
• Brooks offered reason to believe the two men now understand they are yoked for life.
  — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• Given the statistics, why do women like me yoke ourselves to men old enough to be our fathers?
  — Diane Stopyra, Marie Claire, 19 Dec. 2017
• Retention has to be yoked to recruiting to make any headway.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 7 July 2017
• This is not a case of mistaken identity, of two Jordan Petersons yoked to the same name.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 21 May 2018
• This is the usual hysteria yoked to the usual foggy thinking.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
• Black politicians yoke his legacy to their own ambitions.
  — Eddie S. Glaude, Time, 29 Mar. 2018
• Khan hopes to yoke public anger after last year’s ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for corruption.
  — Time, 28 June 2018
• Labs found new ways to shrink battery sizes, yoke them together and raise energy output.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• Labs found new ways to shrink battery sizes, yoke them together, and raise energy output.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
• But yoking together the disparate elements of the story Mr. White is trying to tell would have been a tall order for anyone.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• The mall makes things real, even if their realness is inevitably yoked to capitalism.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2018
• That meant that some better neologisms got no ink that week, because they were yoked to one or two meh or problematic ones.
  — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
• Even for congressional Republicans who are yoked to Trump, free trade is a sore subject.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 July 2018
• But the appearance of the enigmatic pitcher, fully yoked, wearing a baseball glove caught the world’s attention.
  — Ted Berg, For The Win, 16 Mar. 2018
• Trump, meanwhile, managed to yoke the meeting to his administration’s campaign to buttress Israel on the world stage.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020
• Democrats plan to yoke the entire party, especially vulnerable members in tough districts, to Greene in the midterms.
  — Melanie Zanona, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
• Those choices in turn become collars, yoking us to the reality, no matter how gilded, of the daily grind.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
• On the downside, the state is still yoked to oil, a commodity whose global price drives the economy to erratic highs and lows and whose supplies on the North Slope have steadily decreased for more than 25 years.
  — Jeannette Lee Falsey, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 May 2016
• Italy’s Northern League flourishes on the resentment of the more affluent regions in the country’s north, which are angry about being yoked to the poorer and more corrupt south.
  — Miranda Green, Newsweek, 17 July 2014
• The senator had yoked herself to Medicare for All—a single-payer system free at the point of service proposed by her competitor, Bernie Sanders.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• America is the strange place where Asians are stranded, yoked together by difference.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• The funky new Tourists is the ideal place to stay, a 46-room complex that yokes together an old motel, mill, and 19th-century farmhouse and features onsite trails and river fishing.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 June 2018
• The emissions reductions, however, are not yoked to production.
  — Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024