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

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

He looked "like some dispossessed character from the Homeric cycle, who had yoked the oxen of the sun."

From Time Magazine Archive

Whoever mentioned having seen them, wondered at the chance which had yoked him to such a woman, but yet more at the silent fortitude with which he bore it.

From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Fuller, Margaret

Whoever mentioned having seen them wondered at the chance which had yoked him to such a woman, but yet more at the silent fortitude with which he bore it.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.