North Americans

Usage examples of yank.

Jack hauled himself to his feet, yanked on his jacket, and for the second time that day left without telling Addle where he was going, or why.

Every weekend, the Yanks had a wild brawl down on the se afront and the police were called in.

Crack, crack, crack, their trigger hands in constant motion, ejecting old shells, chambering fresh ones, not really aiming as they yanked off their bullets, the recoils jolting them.

Giving them a polite nod, Alec tried to hurry past but one caught the edge of his cloak and yanked him roughly into their midst.

Yanking her into the dining cabin, the Argon dragged her over to the table, where he practically dumped her into one of the two chairs.

Yank had used slang sampling a thirty-year span of American argot, and Jonathan assumed he got it from late night movies.

Scant seconds, it seemed, after the COD had been nudged and prodded out of the way, an EA-6B Prowler electronic-warfare aircraft slammed into the deck in a barely controlled crash, yanked to a halt by the arrestor cable.

The cable-creature had yanked itself completely free of the ground at one end.

You are just behaving like any man who has had the rug yanked out from under his feet.

He simply yanked away a wire connecting between the tab and the blinker box.

He grabbed the upper edge of the blob in his gloved hands and yanked hard.

I yanked the rest of the line over the wall, and hastened across the Boody grounds, coiling it as I went, the gun a hard lump between belt and belly.

Cawcaw fishes when the feller which is skiping gets a bite he lets him have it a minit and the feller whitch is padling the bote padles towards the shore and then the feller whitch is skiping gumps rite out as soon as the water aint over his head and gives a big yank, and the pikeril goes saling into the field.

Without pausing he yanked her after him as he plunged into the narrow entrance of the dense, boxwood maze.

Spitmobile guns right past us, Chugger yanks the wheel to the left, and the back end swings around to collide climactically against the front end of the Bronco, sending a precious shrapnel of bouncing snare drums, splintering guitars, squirming black cables, and jury-rigged electronics.