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• By the end of his fourth year of weight-lifting, Lee was yoked.From the entry yoked
• They were under the yoke of the Romans.From the entry under the yoke
• They got yoked four years ago.From the entry yoked
• They were under the Roman yoke.From the entry under the yoke
• The rib is separated from the anterior margin of the sacricostal yoke by a slit-like fenestra.2015 October 15, “The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria…. From the entry sacricostal
• The distal end of the sacrodorsal rib is fused to the sacrocostal yoke.2015 December 17, “A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry sacrocostal
• All farm carriage was by pack-horse, except that oxen were sometimes yoked to harvest or dung-sledges ('gurry-buts').2013, Eric Kerridge, The Agricultural Revolution, Routledge, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry gurry-butt
• The yahooism he had always despised was suddenly yoked to an ideology he viewed as reckless.2007 April 29, James Traub, “Who Put the ‘Cold’ in Cold War?”, in New York Times. From the entry yahooism
• The wheelbench was tied to the "necking stick," or yoke of the oxen.1992, Ann Fears Crawford, Crystal Sasse Ragsdale, Women in Texas, page 16. From the entry wheelbench
• Skirts can also be fitted with a hip yoke to replace darts or gores.1989, Sharon Lee Tate, Inside Fashion Design, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 371. From the entry overtop
• They helped rather the big industrialists than to befree the poors from the yoke of the money-lenders.1975, Asia Institute, Asian perspectives, Hague, Netherlands. From the entry befree
• She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 23, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. From the entry launch
• A nightgown with a high neck and long sleeves may have the fullness set into a yoke.1919, Martha Van Rensselaer, Flora Rose, Helen Canon, A Manual of Home-Making, page 376. From the entry high
• Oh F this for a laugh, ya get the yoke I'm sure now, ya doesn't has to explain.2017, Richard Segal, Sunday Night at the Races. From the entry f
• They go well with my yoked cowgirl shirt and mud-kickers—now off to the mercantile to buy a pair of spurs!2013, Brenda Schweder, Vintage Redux, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry mud-kicker
• But the ease and un-flamboyantness of these similes owes to their yoking of near neighbors in the natural world.1973, The Mississippi Quarterly, page 641. From the entry flamboyantness
• Have not seen a bullock in the yoke yet.1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 298. From the entry spider
• My mother always said I had rocks in my head, ever since I was a boy, perhaps the yoke of being an Irish American.2019, Virginia Biggar, Lynda Everman, Steven M. Glazer, Dementia-Friendly Worship, page 51. From the entry rocks in one's head
• They showed that across all postures, nonsitting infants more frequently yoked their arms into a bilateral reach pattern than the independent sitters.1998, Mark L. Latash, Mindy F. Levin, Progress in Motor Control, page 61. From the entry nonsitting
• The oxymorous yoking together of the words “selfish” and “generosity” is a highly artistic way of expressing the tension of discernible action and inner motive.1985, Littcrit, Institute of Correspondence Courses, University of Kerala, page 18. From the entry oxymorous
• If the lighthead pivots too freely, adjustment can be made at both yoke pivots ( fig . 18 - 22 ) .1971, U.S. Naval Dental School, Dental Technician, Repair, page 329. From the entry lighthead
• In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off.1946, Conrad Richter, The Fields, page 231. From the entry rooster
• I missed the train home and I couldn't get any kind of a yoke to give me a lift. . . .1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 5. From the entry nothing for it
• Abbreviations: k, ventral keel; ns, neural spine; pre, prezygapophysis; sd, sacrodorsal vertebra; sdr, sacrodorsal rib; sr, sacral ribs; sy, sacral yoke; s5, sacral vertebra 5; tp, transverse process.2015 December 17, “A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry sacrodorsal
• Rāb(ṇ) gave command to his son, Narātǎk, who, with sea-dragons yoked to his chariot and with bow and arrow in hand, marshalled his officers and forces in urgent haste.2013, Judith M. Jacob, The Cambodian Version of the Ramayana, London: Routledge, page 10. From the entry sea dragon
• Adults adulterate the joyful givenness of life into an encumbering, burdenful yoke- a yoke which must be cast off, if we are to ever reach greener pastures.2002, Jack Haas, “The Myth of Knowing”, in The Way of Wonder: A Return to the Mystery of Ourselves, Vancouver, B.C.: Iconoclast Press…. From the entry burdenful
• The solids are detailed with a sportly plaid trim inside the (A) collar band, (B) yoke, (C) cuff, (D) pocket gussets and (E) under the pocket flaps.1977, Texas Monthly, volume 5, number 10, page 224. From the entry sportly
• Cuba was the last of the independent Latin American countries to throw off the Spanish yoke and the first to become a full-fledged neo-colony of the United States.1969, Leo Huberman, Paul Marlor Sweezy, chapter 11, in Socialism in Cuba, Monthly Review Press, page 201. From the entry neo-colony
• In twenty-wan years in this box I don't believe I've ever pulled down wan of those signal yokes without half-expecting a pint of stout to come out down below somewhere.2013, Flann O'Brien, “O'Dea's Your Man”, in Collected Plays and Teleplays, →ISBN, page 417. From the entry gawm
• "The Education of Taban lo Liyong" is a counterpoint in a class of literature between the monovisioned professor and the multifarious, complex consciousness of the student, yoking disparate elements together.1978, Michael Popkin, Modern Black writers. From the entry monovisioned

Meaning of yoke

1. noun A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; two draught animals connected by such a yoke; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
2. noun Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
3. noun A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.

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How do you use yoke in a sentence?

Yoke is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Ranchers were yoked together with farmers on the issue.”

What is a short sentence with yoke?

“to work two yokes”

What does yoke mean?

Yoke means a bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; two draught animals connected by such a yoke; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.