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
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
She has yoked her horses from the remote rising-place of the sun....
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
But though he too has yoked his genius to the car of power and patronage, he has done great things.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
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
