Yoke has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Yoke the oxen to the plow. | |
| 2. | They were under the yoke of a tyrant. | |
| 3. | The country bore the yoke of tyranny for two decades. | |
| 4. | Yoke the oxen to the plough. | |
| 5. | He promised that, if he were so happy as to obtain her as his wife, he was prepared to offer him the handsomest gifts which a herdsman could bestow — a yoke of oxen fit for the plough, four hives of bees, fifty young apple trees for planting, the hide of an ox already tanned as well as a weaned calf annually. | |
| 6. | On these grounds, alone, I think I may claim a preference to other suitors, and none of their gifts shall exceed mine. They may offer goats and sheep, or a yoke of wretched oxen, or corn that is even not fit food for fowls; but I will give you three thousand drachmas — only let no one know what I have offered — not even Lamon my father! | |
| 7. | The yoke of marriage is so heavy that it takes two people to carry it – sometimes three. | |
| 8. | "'Tis war thou bringest us," Anchises cries, / strange land! For war the mettled steed they train, / and war these threaten. Yet in time again / these beasts are wont in harness to obey, / and bear the yoke, as guided by the rein. / Peace yet is hopeful." | |
| 9. | Thou shalt live by the sword, and shalt serve thy brother: and the time shall come, when thou shalt shake off and loose his yoke from thy neck. | |
| 10. | Algerians were able to break the yoke of French colonization. |