yoke
noun
a device for joining together a pair of draft animals, especially oxen, usually consisting of a crosspiece with two bow-shaped pieces, each enclosing the head of an animal.
had yoked
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past perfectof yoke.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Comprised of just four, sprawling tracks, the album liberated commercial black artists from the singles-driven mandate that had yoked them for so long.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2018
He looked "like some dispossessed character from the Homeric cycle, who had yoked the oxen of the sun."
From Time Magazine Archive
By late July, he had yoked the Joint Chiefs together and won their O.K. to abandon a cornerstone of U.S. defense strategy--the ability to fight two simultaneous wars.
From Time Magazine Archive
But however keenly he felt and regretted the precipitancy which had yoked him for life to "a mute and spiritless mate," the breach did not come from his side.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
So when he and his companions had yoked the bulls, and slain the dragon, and carried away the fleece, they took Medea with them in the ship, and so departed.
From Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred John Church
