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32 examples of Yanked in a sentence

This is from a 16th century Aztec scroll showing a man about to eat a psilocybin mushroom and at the same moment get yanked up the staircase by a god.
And then I got this image in my head of what would happen if you yanked the wire from the wall and if you started to follow it.
I was waiting for an audible pedestrian signal, and as it went off, I was just about to step out into the street, when all of a sudden, my right hand was just gripped by this guy, and he yanked my arm and pulled me out into the crosswalk and was dragging me out across the street, speaking to me in Mandarin.
If A is the question, B is the answer, stay creative in the cloud, and you start going, and experiments don't work, experiments don't work, experiments don't work, experiments don't work, until you reach a place linked with negative emotions where it seems like your basic assumptions have stopped making sense, like somebody yanked the carpet beneath your feet.
Unfortunately for her, the anchor line gets tangled around the feet of some Boy Scouts who are visiting the Pantheon, and they are immediately yanked out and given an extraordinary but terrifying tour of some of the domes of Rome, which would, from their point of view, naturally be hanging upside down.
All analysis was gone, adrenaline brain kicked in, and I just yanked the spines out.
And then he yanked the curtains off the wall, and then he tried to throw plants out the window.
I watched him for about an hour as he yanked at it, trying to find a way out of this thing.
But what I hear is a slurping sound, and a noise that sounds like Velcro being yanked off a sticky wall, and I am not even kidding.
I took them like this, and I yanked my head back.
I don't have time to read this, because I'm going to be yanked off.
I saw this as a kid, before it had been yanked from the rotation, and even then it left a bad taste in my mouth.
It's big on explosions and special effects, with Sri Lankan soldiers and rebels dodging grenades, running from fireballs, and being yanked by stunt wires.
There are a few great effects like a shot from INSIDE a guy's mouth when he gets stabbed in the chin by a knife and it pokes up through his tongue and slams into the roof of his mouth, and one gross-out with a guy getting his eyeballs yanked out.
I would prefer having both eye balls yanked out and then be forced to tap dance on them than ever view this pitiful dreck again.
Another thing that yanked my crank was the belabored point of the homeless section of LA being there for reasons of hunger, these people don't get enough to eat.
Moreover, Sheets certainly doesn't skimp on the gloriously graphic and excessive over-the-top splatter: this picture delivers a tasty truckload of flesh melting, evisceration, lots of gut munching, one dude has his heart yanked out, and there's even a nice impalement on a tree branch.
Once it decided to show it's face the tape was yanked out and broken into at least 243 pieces.
It was yanked out of circulation so that a pair of bookends could be shot, in which the story becomes a kind of parable told by a wise old rector (Dana Andrews) to a younger priest undergoing a pastoral crisis.
That's no way to treat Bertrand Tavernier but compared to Claude Lelouch he probably feels he's being feted; Lelouch's latest, The Human Condition: Part One, Parisiens, has been yanked already after just four weeks, I got there just in time but that's another story.
Perhaps the funniest moment is Charley's ascent to the high-wire platform -- he is being yanked up, a la Peter Pan, but pretends to be going hand over hand.
This hilariously horrible Italian horror howler slavishly imitates both "Jaws" and "Jaws 2" so blatantly that Universal successfully sued the shameless filmmakers on the grounds of plagiarism and had this perfectly putrid picture yanked out of theaters during its disastrously short-lived American release.
I certainly do understand why this film was yanked from general viewing.
The folks that made Hide and Creep must have literally yanked some distributor to get this waste of good film stock into the rental stores.
Cartoon characters Bullwinkle Moose (voice of Keith Scott, who is also the voice of the narrator) and Rocket J. Squirrel (voice of June Foray) are yanked out of their endless re-runs by perky, hopeless FBI agent Karen Sympathy (Piper Perabo) in order to combat their arch-enemies, Boris (Jason Alexander), Natasha (Rene Russo) and Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro) when THEY are brought out into the real world.
I can honestly say Legions of the Dead is the only movie I yanked out of my VCR and slammed it directly into the garbage.
I tried to watch it for almost an hour and I couldn't understand what the hell was going on so I literally yanked it and tossed it !
Italian exploitation riff on "Jaws" was notorious for being yanked from theaters after the producers mounted a multimillion dollar ad campaign (that looks like it cost a lot more than anything in the actual film) that attracted the attention of Steven Spielberg and Universal Pictures.
The event was videotaped, to be aired to an astonished nation the next day, but in the rush the cameraman’s power cable was yanked from the wall as the convicted couple was dragged out to an open-air courtyard.
The banks that lent huge sums, mostly unsecured, to LTCM, are the same ones that put in around $175 billion of short-term loans to five East Asian developing countries (Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand), and then abruptly reversed gear, and yanked out tens of billions of loans in 1997 and 1998.