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yoke
noun as in bondage, bond
Example Sentences
It was the precipitating factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1980s as nations in Eastern Europe began to liberate themselves from the communist yoke.
Yet the films are still yoked together under Kwedar’s helpful catchphrase — human connection in impossible places — as well as their tendency to bring lesser-known character actors into the spotlight.
The guard video, shot over the pilot’s left shoulder, shows him aggressively working the yoke to keep the enormous plane airborne and on target to release a drenching stream of fire retardant.
On another page an elderly farmer in the Fujian Province of China struggles under a shoulder yoke of watering cans.
Schiff criticized Garvey for voting for Trump three times, including in this year’s primaries, and sought to yoke him to Trump’s most unpopular policy proposals, including mass deportations of people living in the country illegally.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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