Sentence examples for yanked him back from inspiring English sources

He snorted and stamped at her until a friend came in and yanked him back to the party.

The bell echoing through the house, however, yanked him back to cold reality.

Darlene yanked him back as he was about to topple over the rail.

"So he went round her and she grabbed him by his left pec, sunk her claws into his skin and yanked him back.

Obama writes that Ann concluded that "power had taken Lolo and yanked him back into line just when he thought he'd escaped, making him feel its weight, letting him know that his life wasn't his own".

Power had taken Lolo and yanked him back into line just when he thought he'd escaped.... That's how things were; you couldn't change it, you could just live by the rules, so simple once you learned them".

At least he could yank him back to safety that way.

Then something caught his eye, yanking him back to grim awareness: an arm, bobbing near the surface, a black hair tie wrapped around its wrist.

But the conversations seemed to be an escape for Mr. Obama, "a way of yanking him back to the point of view he prefers," said Michael Beschloss, another historian who attended.

Despite his charisma and success, federal prosecutors say he is nothing but a street tough who fled his Staten Island neighborhood and never thought that the neighborhood would yank him back.

Watching the Segway snap inwards, on collision course with the most expensive legs in the universe, you can see on his face already that he knows he's going to hit Bolt in the worst way from behind, suddenly, pushing him forward and yanking him back, rolling over the Achilles and snapping at the hamstrings.