Sentence examples for yank it from from inspiring English sources

On the phone — they were promoting a match they were scheduled to play in New York to raise money for a tennis program McEnroe runs — as in interviews and books, Connors and McEnroe talked of how their intent had been to revolutionize the game, yank it from a past they found stuffy and prissy, its manners a formula for dullness and lackluster play (and poor officiating).

He'd brought back the Straight Outta Compton album and it took 30 seconds for his mum to yank it from the tape deck.

By now you're probably well aware that Google released their long-awaited Gmail iOS app today, only to unceremoniously yank it from the App Store when people pointed out that it didn't really work.

"If they try to yank it from him, it would be utterly catastrophic for them," said Norm Ornstein, a scholar at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute.

Ghiya's thieves stole the statue in the late nineteen-eighties, lacing a chain through the boar's open mouth and yanking it from its stone pedestal, shearing off its lower jaw and breaking its legs in the process.

Somebody -- no, make that some creep -- yanked it from its perch while no one was looking, probably during the night of July 19.

While she was gone, Mr. Marino stood up from the kitchen table and snagged his breathing tube on the table's edge, yanking it from his throat.

He steadied the pistol at his side and then yanked it from an imaginary holster, popping off a shot that managed to plug the carton cleanly.

I held a strip of raw duck, and after yanking it from my fingers the bird flew back to the railing.

Once, a rope I was pulling in got trapped and stuck, and Norman yanked it from my hands, yelling at me for failing to pay attention.

Unable to get his way on the parliamentary ground rules for considering the Shays-Meehan bill, he simply abandoned his promise of a fair vote and yanked it from the floor.