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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This dress has a seven-button front, double chest patch pockets, and a seamed back yoke.
    — Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But an iron yoke is not sufficient to stop cross-talk at higher magnetic field strengths.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2019
  • Both suits have sleeveless coveralls with yokes, front and back, of Lycra stretch knit.
    — The Editors, Outside, 20 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Mercedes provided three scenarios to test the steer-by-wire and yoke setup.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Corsica has been trying to shake off the yoke of occupation ever since.
    — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2025
  • By 2023, the yoke became a $1,000 option.
    — Robert Duffer, AJC.com, 19 June 2026
  • In self-drive mode, the yoke wheel folds into the dashboard, and the center screen slides over to cover it; the pedals retract into the footwell.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There's no steering yoke or room for a driver because a driver or staff member isn't needed for operation.
    — Charles Singh, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • Try the trend in this dark-wash style with slimming mesh panels, a curved back yoke, classic five-pocket styling, and petite sizes 0–16.
    — Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The four-pocket style is unlined, except for the yoke, which gives its shoulders some structure but allows the rest of the light construction to drape easily.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 17 June 2026
  • No one’s going to be stuck in a hand-over-hand situation like in a Tesla, with its horrid implementation of a yoke.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The legislature can lighten the regulatory yoke on all businesses rather than play favorites with a few.
    — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Its most forward-looking feature might be the cocoon-like dash, fronted by a yoke in place of a conventional steering wheel in the fighter jet–style cockpit.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 17 June 2026
  • Mercedes-Benz is ready to jump both feet into the yoke future and is taking a page out of the aviation industry’s playbook all in one motion.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 2 Apr. 2026
  • In most cases, especially in North America, the industry steered away from the yoke.
    — Robert Duffer, AJC.com, 19 June 2026
  • The jeans feature a four-piece contour waistband to avoid waistline gaps, and an exclusive yoke-over-body construction with angled back pockets to highlight curves.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Why, after all, did the feudal lords of the South, loyal to Church and throne, throw off the royal yoke to join the Revolution?
    — James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • Down Pennsylvania Avenue, a man in a karate gi, disposable gloves, and dirty white sneakers was hauling a cart by means of a homemade yoke strapped across his shoulders.
    — Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • For lower magnetic fields, such as those at the LHC, this cross-talk can be resolved by including a component known as an iron yoke between the two apertures.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2019

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

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