Sentence examples for yanked the rope from inspiring English sources

She goes on in this irate vein — which would be fair enough, except that carried away perhaps by her own polemical fury, she seems not to notice that in her ardor to rescue Stone from his enemies, she has yanked the rope a little too firmly and has accidentally hanged the man.

His wife, Wendy, spared him from the great white by coolly reaching out a hand and, as the cameras rolled, yanking the rope out of the shark's mouth.

These have been replaced by knee-jerk politics, third-rate knockoffs of folk tales and a vision of England where Sunday cricketers still gather on village greens and bell-ringers yank the ropes in the local church.

He shook his big head and yanked the halter rope from Mr. Chandler's hands, knocking the old man into a sinkhole.

Bald but beaming, 5-year-old Eden Oyelola yanked the long rope to ring the "victory bell" at Children's National Medical Center last September.

He yanks the tiller rope; the winch engages, and the century-old contraption begins its two-minute ascent 150 feet to the top of the tallest solar telescope on Mt. Wilson.

To make sure he didn't disappear into an alligator hole, his grandfather tied a rope around his waist, yanking when the rope stretched taut.

"Haul away, you rolling kings, heave away, heave away," they bellow as they yank on the rope.

There were loud arguments, scuffling; some of the abductees yanked at the ropes and Iroegbunam passed out.

We reached out tentatively and yanked on the ropes in front of us and quickly rose about two feet in the air.

Connectify, though, yanked the campaign.