How to Use yoke in a Sentence

yoke

1 of 2 noun

• These should’ve been redesigned with the yoke.
  — Joel Feder, The Drive, 2 Apr. 2026
• Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam, Wood of hornbeam.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
• The yoke arose from an inflection point.
  — Robert Duffer, AJC.com, 19 June 2026
• The thing that was attractive to me was the print, the snaps, and the yoke.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 24 Aug. 2017
• The paperboard yoke folds over the top of cans and has finger holes.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2022
• Fleurs-de-lis decorated the yoke of her black-and-white dress.
  — John Pope, NOLA.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Initial offerings of the yoke didn’t go over well.
  — Robert Duffer, AJC.com, 19 June 2026
• It’s finished with barrel cuffs and a seamed, pleated back yoke.
  — Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• Today is the beginning of their fifth year under the yoke of war.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2026
• Rotate the shirt to iron the side seam, back and shoulder yoke, other side seam and rest of front.
  — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 7 May 2021
• Each aircraft has a yoke, which rides the back of the fuselage and holds the pivots for the swing wings.
  — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2020
• John holds on to the yoke, looking straight ahead, as alarms and red lights blare on the control panel.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
• The leather yoke at the front chest and upper back give it the authentic workman’s feel.
  — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2022
• Unpredictable when driven hard, brakes no match for the power, the yoke is a joke.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 27 July 2022
• The front axles may contain a wheel end yoke that was not properly welded to the axle tube end.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
• Jordan’s oversized Wings logo is on the back yoke.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 22 Jan. 2026
• His shirts also featured yokes and wider cuffs, a departure from the norm at the time.
  — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 16 June 2026
• The shirt features dropped shoulder seams, a back yoke and single-button cuffs.
  — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 19 Nov. 2025
• One eye-catching feature inside the car is its race car-like yoke-style steering wheel.
  — Peter Lyon, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
• This dress has a seven-button front, double chest patch pockets, and a seamed back yoke.
  — Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• That means the hoop section comes in lime-green, with the yoke and grip now pistachio colored.
  — Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• The steering’s re-centering force is sufficient to make the yoke slip from your grip.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 24 June 2021
• But an iron yoke is not sufficient to stop cross-talk at higher magnetic field strengths.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2019
• Irene feels burdened by the yoke of race, but Clare recognizes that race itself is a joke.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• The name refers to the long, ropelike rings once used to tether horses and yoke oxen back from the fields.
  — Stacy Adimando, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2017
• The elastic faux-wrap waist is comfy, while the ruffles along the hem and front yoke add plenty of volume.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
• Both suits have sleeveless coveralls with yokes, front and back, of Lycra stretch knit.
  — The Editors, Outside, 20 Dec. 2025
• More trompe-l’oeil tailoring followed—on one trench, an upside-down waistband formed the yoke.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• In Maggie, Roth found an excuse to slip off the yoke forever.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• The super high-rise fit defines my waist, while a curved yoke and higher back pockets create a perkier look.
  — Elizabeth Mitchell Kadar, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2026

yoke

2 of 2 verb

• The two oxen were yoked together.
• But if the joke and the ignorance are equally yoked, people will laugh.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
• And yet, the Grand Canyon remains yoked to the present in one key respect.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• Whatever your needs, there’s a joystick or yoke to suit your needs and budget.
  — Harry Rabinowitz and Matt Ng, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023
• Who is this dude that comes back on the (aircraft) carrier, yoked from lifting weights?
  — Don Norcross, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Brooks offered reason to believe the two men now understand they are yoked for life.
  — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• Like Jaylon, his parents have yoked their future to faith in God.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2020
• The male stands at an impressive six feet ten inches long, yoked to the max with rippling muscles.
  — Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
• Given the statistics, why do women like me yoke ourselves to men old enough to be our fathers?
  — Diane Stopyra, Marie Claire, 19 Dec. 2017
• Labs found new ways to shrink battery sizes, yoke them together and raise energy output.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• Labs found new ways to shrink battery sizes, yoke them together, and raise energy output.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
• This is the usual hysteria yoked to the usual foggy thinking.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
• The mall makes things real, even if their realness is inevitably yoked to capitalism.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2018
• That meant that some better neologisms got no ink that week, because they were yoked to one or two meh or problematic ones.
  — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
• The desire to pluck out the heart of the mystery of Shakespeare’s great tragedies, to yoke the life to the works, is understandable.
  — James Shapiro, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
• Beijing retaliated, and soon trade was yoked by billions of dollars in new taxes.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• America is the strange place where Asians are stranded, yoked together by difference.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• This is not a case of mistaken identity, of two Jordan Petersons yoked to the same name.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 21 May 2018
• Progress required that citizens yoke themselves to an immoral economy in ever more complex ways.
  — R.h. Lossin, The New York Review of Books, 4 Sep. 2020
• Those choices in turn become collars, yoking us to the reality, no matter how gilded, of the daily grind.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
• Even for congressional Republicans who are yoked to Trump, free trade is a sore subject.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 July 2018
• The emissions reductions, however, are not yoked to production.
  — Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• But the appearance of the enigmatic pitcher, fully yoked, wearing a baseball glove caught the world’s attention.
  — Ted Berg, For The Win, 16 Mar. 2018
• And if health insurance were not yoked to employment, just imagine how much freer workers would be to demand safer working conditions and better pay.
  — Meagan Day, Vox, 1 Aug. 2018
• Farmers plowed with oxen; women walked by balancing grain and babies in shoulder-yoke baskets; a few brave souls invited us into their homes.
  — Jane Harrigan, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
• Khan hopes to yoke public anger after last year’s ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for corruption.
  — Time, 28 June 2018
• Democrats plan to yoke the entire party, especially vulnerable members in tough districts, to Greene in the midterms.
  — Melanie Zanona, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
• Trump, meanwhile, managed to yoke the meeting to his administration’s campaign to buttress Israel on the world stage.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020
• Outdoor gear may appear rugged and practical, but the industry that produces and markets it is yoked to traditional fashion cycles.
  — Corey Buhay, Outside, 15 Sep. 2025
• That legacy echoes in our every cell, yoking our fates to the vast unicellular realm, where creatures such as protozoans navigate threats, seek succor and sense their way from life to death.
  — Claire L. Evans, Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2025