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.
has yoked
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present perfectof yoke (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Rather than promoting others’ products, like most influencers, she has yoked her fame to merchandise of her own: a best-selling perfume line, pet products, clothes, a lucrative d.j. career, and on and on.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 7, 2018
But mainly he wins because he is tireless in energy and enthusiasm and yet has yoked these qualities to ordinary purposes.
From The Foundations of Personality by Abraham Myerson
The Sindhu has yoked her easy chariot with horses; may she conquer prizes for us in the race.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate.
From The New Testament Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses. by Leicester A. (Leicester Ambrose) Sawyer
Who to the wind has yoked on the storm-clouds the swift and fleetest two?
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
