What's the difference between sank and yank?

Sank


Definition:

  • () imp. of Sink.
  • () of Sink

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Land near the city of Corcoran sank 13in in just eight months.
  • (2) There will be no further comment from the club at this stage.” The defeat at the KC Stadium – a fifth in a row in the league – meant Villa sank into the bottom three for the first time this season, having briefly topped the table in August after winning three of their opening four matches.
  • (3) The World Bank has revised down growth estimates, and the Kenyan shilling sank to a record low against the dollar in October, pushing food and fuel prices higher.
  • (4) With it sank my suitcase of clothes and my striped prisoner uniform, including my hat, coat, shirt and a knife.
  • (5) When the nest temperature was raised to thermoneutral, the direction of pup flow reversed and an immobile animal sank to the depths of the huddle.
  • (6) As the reality of Putin's decision that he would return to the Kremlin next year sank in, one joke was doing the rounds: "In response to the charge that there are no new faces in Russian politics, Vladimir Putin got plastic surgery."
  • (7) He said: 'Let's raise the red flag over the town hall', and my heart sank because I knew that it would be taken as a marker.
  • (8) Demand also sank in other major continental markets, falling 14.5% in France, 13.9% in Spain and 4.9% in Italy.
  • (9) Given how empty the sea is, it was a miracle that his distress signal, transmitted to the ever-watchful Falmouth Coastguard, was picked up by a Chinese supertanker whose crew plucked him from the water minutes before his boat sank.
  • (10) An intravenous bolus injection of 1 mg of naloxone was administered immediately before starting a routine hemodialysis session and was repeated when the patients' systolic arterial pressure sank below 90 mm Hg.
  • (11) Nielsen indicated that shoppers spent 1.6% less at the UK’s leading supermarkets in the four weeks to 13 September, while the volume of items bought sank 1.9%.
  • (12) I thought we had finally put it all behind us, but when the authorities told us recently it was likely to happen again, that was when our hearts sank.
  • (13) The bodies of 111 people have been found since the boat sank half a mile from Italian territory on Thursday.
  • (14) It was French opposition that finally sank the bid to seal a temporary nuclear accord, after three days of intense bargaining, in the early hours of Sunday morning, but Netanyahu was quick to claim credit.
  • (15) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
  • (16) Many people you talk to will label Twitter Music as a flop: its iPhone app flew high briefly in the App Store, then sank swiftly.
  • (17) The presence of these radionuclides at great depth could not be explained by Stokesian settling of small fallout particles and it was hypothesized that zooplankton grazing in the surface layers packaged these particle-reactive radionuclides into large, relatively dense faecal pellets which rapidly sank to depth.
  • (18) North Korea prefers sneak attacks, like the torpedo in March 2010 that sank the South Korean navy ship Cheonan : 46 died.
  • (19) As revenues sank 28.5% to €82.6m, it made an operating loss of €3.8m, down from a €4.7m profit last year.
  • (20) In 2001, Howard Katz , an examination of male midlife crisis, sank amid lukewarm reviews.

Yank


Definition:

  • (n.) A jerk or twitch.
  • (v. t.) To twitch; to jerk.
  • (n.) An abbreviation of Yankee.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
  • (2) The Bombers have scored seven runs in four games, all losses, prompting manager Joe Girardi to answer “I don’t know” to the question of why the Yanks can’t hit.
  • (3) And as Neymar has begun to prosper at this World Cup he has been busy yanking things back.
  • (4) He yanks a few times on the starting cord of the outboard engine, and we sputter off into the bay towards our target – our progress in these sensitive waters observed by a police motorboat.
  • (5) he squeals as he yanks the calendar out of my hands.
  • (6) But the most worrying problem with rank and yank is it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • (7) "A guy comes near my seat, shoves a badge that had some sort of a shield on it, yanks the Google Glass off my face and says 'Follow me outside immediately'," said the man, who was taken into a room for interrogation.
  • (8) The video, which was published by the New York Daily News , shows an officer putting his arm around Garner's neck and yanking him to the ground.
  • (9) Two years ago, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained was yanked from cinemas after censors claimed it showed scenes too violent for Chinese audiences.
  • (10) None of this means you should yank your cash out of your stock and bond investments and stick it into your bank account or under your mattress.
  • (11) "Can you explain to the Whining Yanks that they didn't have a goal disallowed in the match against Slovenia, since the referee clearly blew for what he perceived to be a foul before the ball had reached Edu and ended up in the back of the net," lectures Matt.
  • (12) Improper insertion techniques, unintentional yanking of the tail, or genital touching during sexual foreplay accounted for the 4 expulsions.
  • (13) He is toughest of all on himself: nearly 50 years on he is still mortified by his rhyming of "woman" with "human" in a song that got yanked from Anyone Can Whistle .
  • (14) Every day in the studio, Li’s untutored legs were yanked into stretches that tore his hamstrings.
  • (15) A curtain is yanked back and we get an insight into the chaos normally presented with supreme confidence.
  • (16) But you can't yank their reins half-heartedly, out of politeness; you can't kick them into action without their noticing.
  • (17) "USA are visibly growing in confidence and I wouldn't be surprised to see the Yanks score again before the night is out."
  • (18) Then, suddenly, a hand reached from within the carriage and yanked me inside.
  • (19) By yanking on the string, the pair were able to pull the trigger from 20ft away, successfully discharging a .380 caliber bullet.
  • (20) The Trump campaign has yanked advertising and staff out of Virginia, and major donors are pulling the plug.