Sentence examples for could have yanked from inspiring English sources

He believed he could have yanked the Messersmith-McNally grievance from the arbitrator, Peter Seitz.

Analysts say such a move would have yanked a potential lifeline the company's media properties could turn to for cash in hard times.

But since Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke first suggested in May that the central bank could ease up on its monthly $85 billion bond purchases this fall and possibly end them next year, investors have yanked $49.3 billion out of bond funds.

And investors have yanked nearly $18 billion from their fixed-income portfolios, according to the Investment Company Institute.

In Canada, major chains have yanked everything Stones-related.

Tour the drafty 20,000-square-foot warehouse, which could have been yanked from an old filmstrip about the Industrial Revolution, and the assembly lines cranking out wise-guy wonders and joyfully juvenile doodads seem never to cease.

The game, which has a name not suitable for printing (though it's easy to see in the URL), was invented by Erik Andersson, then a 17-year-old in Sweden, in a scene that could have been yanked from "The Social Network".

On a tour of S.S. Adams's drafty 20,000-square-foot Jersey Shore warehouse, which could have been yanked from an old filmstrip about the Industrial Revolution, the assembly lines cranking out wise-guy wonders and joyfully juvenile doodads seem never to cease.

Given that he had yanked the colt's head back in a photo finish he could also expect the congratulations of André Fabre to be diluted by icy admonition.

A couple of times, I've yanked songs from artists because, no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't get it right.

Someone had yanked the fire alarm.