How to Use yank in a Sentence

yank

1 of 2 verb

• He yanked the door shut.
• She yanked on the dog's leash.
• Those things are not made to be yanked off.
  — Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
• The twister yanked them out by their roots and ripped off limbs.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2023
• The move yanked King from her role as chair.
  — Tess Riski may 14, Miami Herald, 14 May 2026
• Have your friend yank the long end of the steel around the curve.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2015
• Greg threw open the door and yanked Jake by the arm.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
• It was yanked off the market and plopped back on.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
• Don't twist or yank the tick to remove it.
  — Finch Walker, USA Today, 15 May 2026
• Thom yanked on his jeans, gave me one last sharp look and slammed the door.
  — Nick Dothée, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
• Then along comes a project that yanks you from that shapeless sack of gloom.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 13 Mar. 2025
• My dad taught me a technique to yank on the pole so hook gets on the fish.
  — Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
• The coach then throws his shirt over the student’s head and yanks it around his neck.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 12 June 2024
• When Aldridge tries to grab his right arm, Cure yanks it away.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Sinner’s serve yanked him out to the left corner of the court.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
• Soto yanked a ground ball through the right side, for a single.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 2 May 2026
• Thing rebels against his master and yanks out his clockwork heart.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
• Avent would yank a peanut plant out of the ground to show people where the nuts came from.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
• His thick fingers yanked my panties out of the way and jabbed inside me.
  — Amy Hatvany, Seventeen, 5 Apr. 2018
• The wildness that shot up in a man’s eye when his lips were yanked back to take the bit.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Stand silently for a moment as the warthog grunts and yanks against his chain.
  — Ellie Shechet, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
• The bull was yanking against the knotted mess with all its might to no avail.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 4 Oct. 2023
• All day, my fingers worked fast to yank fish off the net, then pull a gill to bleed them.
  — Diana Saverin, Longreads, 25 July 2024
• The Bears yanked him from punt returns and he hasn’t been seen there again.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2024
• Shirlee yanked a scarf from Theo’s dresser and hung it around her own head.
  — Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• The trees around it had been yanked out of the ground and discarded across the field.
  — Miceala Morano, Arkansas Online, 20 May 2025
• Bey couldn’t move and the panicked staff had to yank her hair out of the machine.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 7 May 2018
• These are young men yanked out of their village by Vladimir Putin.
  — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
• Her only help came from a passenger who yanked the girls away.
  — Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 2 June 2026
• His staff often has to yank him out of his ranch house in Austin to get on the road.
  — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026

yank

2 of 2 noun

• The yanks are coming, the yanks are coming!
  — Kirk Bowman, The Conversation, 9 June 2026
• Connie Lansdown, the hysterectomy patient, watches the storm yank a man from a reclining chair and drag him down the hall.
  — Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
• Soy sauce, Maggi seasoning, daikon and shiitake mushroom yank pot roast into new territory.
  — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 24 Mar. 2026
• No snagging Lower-quality beard combs often have the intolerable tendency to pull, yank or just rip out clumps of facial hair.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2026
• Effectively, this turned the workspace into a yank buffer along with all your documents, and undoing any destructive editing operation thus became merely another cut and paste.
  — Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025