Sentence examples for yanking up from inspiring English sources

After yanking up the roots, Mr. Long was left with a bare patch of soil.

Plucking those signs from the earth felt as if we were yanking up flowers by the roots.

"I'm extremely disappointed," he said, resigned to the task ahead: yanking up his new yard and replacing it with a mix of sod and rock.

Many readers have written to ask about their rights and how they -- or the airline -- should react when a particularly large passenger spreads over into their space, often by yanking up the armrest between the two seats.

This isn't a V-8 of course, but Highlander buyers aren't expected to use their cushy car for yanking up stumps on the back forty.

When I visited Bagan, farmers in its surrounding fields were beginning the peanut harvest – yanking up the plants by hand, bashing them with bamboo sticks to remove the peanuts and then winnowing them, one basket at a time, by standing on a tripod of bamboo poles and tipping them into the breeze.

And I yanked up on the rod.

Then he was yanked up by a crane.

How can you yank up the plants that formed you?

Occupants just have to yank up the fish.

They just yanked up the knapweed, an invasive thistle.