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Example sentences for "yokes"

Lexicographically close words:
yojanas; yoke; yoked; yokel; yokels; yoking; yokit; yolden; yolk; yolks
  1. These are yokes without restraint, and crosses that never contradict: a whole cart-load of them would leave a man as unmortified as they find him.

  2. The train made the usual preparations for an Indian attack, throwing the wagons into a circle, or more of an ellipse, and unhooking the five lead yokes to each wagon.

  3. Do not these fair yokes Become the forest better than the town?

  4. Nobly he yokes A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh Was that it was for not being such a smile; The smile mocking the sigh that it would fly From so divine a temple to commix With winds that sailors rail at.

  5. Then all the milk carrying, especially in London, was done by a hardy race of women, principally Welsh, carrying yokes and pails, now the Milk Cart and Perambulator have superseded them.

  6. Will they never shake off the yokes of those hypocritical tyrants, who are interested only in the errors of mankind?

  7. Ansdore certainly spent half as much again as Birdskitchen or Beggar's Bush or Misleham or Yokes Court, but then it had nearly twice as much to show for it.

  8. Having thus settled her aristocracy she turned to her equals and allotted places to Vine of Birdskitchen, Furnese of Misleham, Southland of Yokes Court, and their wives.

  9. Dick Socknersh began to look wan and large-eyed under the strain--he looked more haggard than the shepherd of Yokes Court or the shepherd of Birdskitchen, though they kept fast and vigil as long as he.

  10. A, B, and C, joined by the yokes D and D'.

  11. They that refused the feast in the Gospel, because they had bought a farm, or would try their yokes of oxen, or because they were married, were not so excused, but counted unworthy of the heavenly feast.

  12. Go and tell Hananiah: Thou hast broken wooden yokes; thou shalt make iron yokes in their stead.

  13. They had come to solicit armed assistance to deliver them from Babylon; they were sent back with yokes to wear as a symbol of their entire and helpless subjection to Nebuchadnezzar.

  14. The Return, like other revolutions, was not wrought by rose-water; the yokes were broken and the bands rent asunder by main force.

  15. When Jeremiah sent the yokes to the ambassadors of the allies and exhorted Zedekiah to bring his neck under the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar, they were required to accept the comparatively tolerable servitude of tributaries.

  16. At 66th Street station the subway roof was about 2 feet from the electric railway yokes and structures of the street surface line.

  17. Standard cast-iron yokes were placed upon the timbers at the usual distance apart.

  18. The removal of the tracks was made necessary because the rock beneath them and the concrete around the yokes was so closely united as to be practically monolithic, precluding the use of explosives.

  19. It was necessary to relocate the yokes of the street railway tracks on Lenox Avenue so as to bring them directly over the tunnel roof-beams.

  20. Attempts to remove the rock from under the track demonstrated that it could not be done without destroying the yokes of the surface railway.

  21. It seemed to them that the return to Christ meant, for them, the breaking of yokes and the enlargement of opportunity, and they proceeded to claim for themselves some portion of the liberty that belonged to them.

  22. And we will put yokes on the necks of those who shall have disbelieved: shall they be rewarded any otherwise than according to what they shall have wrought?

  23. The yokes of gold are mine: an honour given cannot be taken away.

  24. When the tribes pass they will laugh, and my people will scorn me if I do not come out to meet them with the yokes of gold.

  25. There were two yokes of rather light animals.

  26. Here we sent back the two yokes of animals which we had brought from Jiquipilas, and secured a fine, strong beast to make up our number, and started.

  27. And yokes will we place on the necks of those who have not believed!

  28. Others have on large iron collars or yokes upon their necks, or clogs riveted upon their wrists or ancles.

  29. Prepare exactly as for Plain White Soup, but just before serving beat up the yokes of 2 or 3 eggs.

  30. Separate yokes and whites of 4 eggs and beat each mass separately.

  31. Then mix well with the butter and sugar, adding the yokes first and the whites last.

  32. For the hot summer months, the yokes should be a thin cotton material without sleeves; and, if the baby is housed in an over-heated apartment, this fact should be borne in mind and the winter skirt should be made accordingly.

  33. The yokes of the dresses usually are too tight before the slips are discarded.

  34. The sun was high when the yokes dropped once more.

  35. Just as the sun cleared the rim of the earth the wagon halted, and at once the yokes fell from the necks of the tired oxen.

  36. The longest and most wearying effort of our pilgrimage had now to be undertaken; our journey's end had to be reached before the yokes again were loosened.

  37. Excepting the creak, creak, of the straining yokes not a sound was audible.

  38. Stone collar, from Porto Rico, analogous to stone yokes of Mexico, 118.

  39. It is worth considering whether the carved stone-yokes may not have served in connection with the funeral rites of the consorts of rulers or high priestesses or priests of the Below.

  40. The yokes consist of two heads of wood held together by threaded rods with nuts; between the rods and the lagging are struts or blocks serving both as spacers and to hold the lagging to plane and surface.

  41. No nails are used in assemblying the parts; the same studding and yokes serve for several sizes of column, the lagging alone being changed.

  42. The outer mold consisted of a sheet metal cylinder in two parts assembled and supported by wooden yokes and framework.

  43. The panels are clamped together by rectangular yokes spaced 3 ft.

  44. For square or rectangular columns there will be usually four units of lagging, one for each side, plus the number of clamps or yokes used to bind the sides together.

  45. In most cases the cable yokes had been broken by the force of the blast.

  46. For circular columns two units of lagging are necessary and this is the number commonly used; the yokes or hoops are spaced about as for rectangular columns.

  47. Where these yokes had not been broken, they were knocked out by blows from pieces of rail.

  48. The inside and outside rings were held together by yokes constructed as shown, and bolted to the inner and outer ribs.

  49. Yokes or clamps will seldom be spaced over 3 ft.

  50. Six pairs of yokes were used for each column so that the yoke spacing was about 2 ft.

  51. Three yokes lay around, with the bows and keys scattered about; and there was no sign of a camp-fire.

  52. I lifted the edge of the hot, greasy tarpaulin, and looked on the flooring of the wagon, partly covered with heavy coils of wool-rope, and the spare yokes and chains.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yokes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.