yanking

Meaning

of Yank

Synonyms

Examples

But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back? Daniel Handler

A dragon's inertia is not shifted by yanking its tail. David Brin

What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets! Cassandra Clare

Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing? "Not really," he said yanking another wire. 'I made up that term to keep you happy. I'm just pulling all the red wires because they're the pretty ones. Derek Landy

Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers. Michelle Malkin

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop. J.R. Ward