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Instead of giving it a firm yank, she waggled it inside my body as if she were whipping up cotton candy.

Lack had both a professional and a personal desire to fend Jobs off, even to yank his chain a bit.

As for CPU, they only need something cheap and low power, just enough to filter some data as they yank it out of memory.

If you feel inclined to test the robustness of your environment, you might opt to be a bit more aggressive (yank the plug! ).

Alvah was sitting on the mattress trying to yank his ankles over his thighs to do it.

Always a hand at my collar ready to yank me back.

Her fist did not loosen, but neither did she yank again. The sergeant was content with such a compromise.

Every time I hung my wash out on the clothesline, she would yank it dawn.

From time to time he would begin to slip sideways from the saddle, but Ser Rolly would get a hand on him and yank him upright once again.

Some, such as Susan Cruz, a former gang member, now work in the world they have left behind, trying to yank others out of it.

The nut is attached to a wire that runs up through a slit in the lid and connects to a paper clip for the parrot to yank.

Several months later, photographer David Conover saw her while taking pictures of women contributing to the war effort for Yank magazine.

Speak up in the balcony, you who would yank out the organs. Why?

Recently he had a stroke, so he had to yank his hat out of the ring.

We do not find the term "Canuck" derogatory, like Americans find "Yank" derogatory.

They used a giant armlike device to yank the Hubble out of its orbit and place it in the Atlantis' cargo bay.

With an exultant yank he pulled in the line, grabbed the fish by its spiny tail and slammed it senseless against the deck.

You could go in very quitely, yank out the five organs that the person would die but you could save the five.

My system would freeze tight and I'd have to crawl under my desk and yank the power cord.

Take the prisoner back to his cell. But yank his rec time. He missed count last night.

Yank lined up some black businessmen to sponsor Joe as a professional boxer , and he won four fights .

I saw with my own eyes the police yank the thief in early this morning.

No, Dr. and Mrs. Cullen yank them out for, like, hiking and camping and stuff.

They may have to yank 'Alice, ' which has grossed nearly $300 million in the U. S. , from many of its 3-D screens.

Simply put, you never know when you'll have to yank something out of some strange crevice.

Dr. Mirmirani can't confirm the old wives' tales that tell you if you yank one gray hair, five more will sprout up.

After a swift yank, I place the hair in a plastic bag and stuff it in a bookshelf in my office.

Thankfully, that's all it took to yank me back into my pain-ridden body as my mind (and likely my mouth) screamed for morphine.

The second one is more upscale. I would staple waste paper, and using a staple remover, I would yank staples as fast as I can.

The dentist is going to yank this tooth out.

Elephants also use their trunks to yank up clumps of grasses and shove the greenery into their mouths.

Younger teens then yank the rocks up with a pulley.

Now you hold still, and I'll yank this thing out.

And that's why it's wrong to yank the organs from that healthy patient.

With one yank of the reins, he started to gallop north.

But the new data also add to expectations that Beijing will feel the need to yank the reins back harder to fight inflation.

The regulator can find a broadcaster to be unfit, and yank its licence, at any time.

yank out the five organs that person would die. . .

We need to take a Yank and not a Brit view of our in-house mavericks.

For example, shoot it right at a sniper and you can yank the poor lad right off his perch, saving valuable ammunition in the process.

Three years ago, Caijing magazine was forced to yank a story also related to State Grid.

Yank- Don't Download This Song.

The Yank Fa Ball Smell That A No New Fashion.

are you gonna keep stroking that . 357, or you gonna yank it?

jerk, snap, twitch, wrench, yank The central meaning shared by these verbs is "to move with a sudden short, quick motion" :

yank off the bandage the doctor uncovered the wound

please raise the box gently , not yank it up

Yank down the shorts of opposing players

yank money from South Korea

Pull off; Yank off; secure