There was a moment or so when nothing much happened, except that the dogs kept barking and yanking at their leashes, pulling some of the exhausted slaves from the trees into the clearing.

"The problem is that the extreme faction within the Republican majority in Congress keeps yanking the debate farther and farther to the right."

We can't let this guy keep yanking us around.

"Mr. Daniels, you have been neglecting your sleep patterns once again- " "Only because you keep yanking us all back in here," Sage said under his breath.

He kept yanking.

He kept yanking at the cords trying to untangle the chute but nothing worked.

I kept yanking it back and was hitting the front of the rim.

Alison Kerry, a young drug runner from Key West, gets all the way to Seattle in Jenny Siler's "Easy Money" (Holt), but the tug of home keeps yanking her back.

MY 2 1/2-year-old son, Adam, keeps yanking "The Nurturing Father" out of my hands as if to say, "Daddy, come on, you don't need that.

Polanski keeps yanking us back and forth between cheerful and frightened.