verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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It jerked his foot banged his knee and was yanked back open.
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The wildness that shot up into the eye the moment the lips were yanked back .
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Not now ... Creed yanked back the lift door and then the outer one.
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Barrow yanked back the bedclothes and both men gasped.
out
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Its gold nylon curls had been yanked out .
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Thus, removing Windows software is not as simple as yanking out that directory and the files it contains.
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District maintenance workers yanked out the seats and replaced them with portable chairs.
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Something must be getting to me, he thought, yanking out his shirttail and wiping at his eyes.
■ NOUN
door
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I yanked the door open and hit the threshold running.
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Lincoln stayed right beside me, pressing against me as I yanked on the car door , having trouble getting it open.
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He yanked the door open and stumbled inside.
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I yanked the door back and slammed it to behind me.
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Not now ... Creed yanked back the lift door and then the outer one.
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Furious with Gilbert's panic, Rohmer pushed past him and yanked the door wide.
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She turned back and yanked shut the door from where the offending smell came.
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Panicking again, Gilbert yanked open the door to the office from which they'd just come and slipped inside.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Buddy yanked the drawer open, and took out the gun.
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His friends grabbed him and yanked him to his feet.
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The child's mother caught him just in time, and yanked him away from the kerb.
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The other girls surrounded her, calling her names and yanking her hair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Five children were yanked by arm or hand across a road.
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Hands vanished around the room, yanked from the maws of a closing trap.
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He yanks me up by the hair.
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He reached and enclosed the boy in his great hammock of an arm, and with the other arm began to yank .
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Liz yanked at her arm, and she stumbled a few steps, digging in her heels.
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She pulled one of her white ceremonial gowns over my head and yanked my arms.
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Smiling wryly, he fetched the lead and yanked Clytemnestra from the best armchair.
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The scales have been yanked from an 8-foot-tall statue of Justice.