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Sentence Examples He's a veteran businessman, venture capitalist, and founder of the Internet consulting firm the Yankee Group. She was a rakish-looking hermaphrodite brig, and in the bright moonlight looked Yankee. As the Roman god Janus looks in two directions, so did the homebound Yankee soldiers. Whatever the reason, Yankee is first recorded in 1765 as a name for an inhabitant of New England. Sistani is playing the fence, while Sadr has maintained a simple line from day one, Yankee go home. He disdains capitalism and free trade, and throughout the campaign accused Yushchenko of being a running-dog lackey of the Yankee imperialists. The Yankee Group projects steeper year-over-year growth for satellite, broadband wireless and other technologies. Williams windmilled his arm before crossing the plate, and as the Yankee dugout, led by Jeter, spilled onto the field, Matsui followed him home. If so, the major Latin-American directors are not gilded wetbacks, fleeing home in search of the Yankee dollar. To make up for a rainout in June, they played at Shea Stadium in the afternoon, then at Yankee Stadium the same night. The fuel rod was removed in 1979 from the Vermont Yankee reactor, which is currently shut down for refueling and maintenance. She was not some Yankee, communist troublemaker with long hair and tattoos carpet-bagging her way through the State. Not to mention he accomplished this playing his home games in Yankee Stadium, a difficult park for righthanded hitters. They are giddy with jetlag and an unspecified number of rum swizzles from the Yankee Clipper. Southerners preferred corn dodgers or pone and pork and clabber rather than Yankee beef. Why didn't he pinch-hit for Dent, the weakest link in the Yankee batting order? With their swords and muskets raised the Yankee soldiers began killing every confederate soldier in sight. The Northeast is not where I grew up either, and Yankee culture still confounds me. Adam Lee burst into the crowd and pulled the bleeding Rebel from the battered Yankee. Customers want the efficiency of e-billing, according to a Yankee Group study completed in April by senior analyst Ryan Jones. Show More Sentences There was enough pride and quiet admiration to fill Yankee Stadium, right there on either side of the fence in left field. He remarked that should some shrewd Yankee set up a grog shop near Mr. Smith's house, he would make his fortune. The Sox flew to New York last night and will hold a non-mandatory workout at Yankee Stadium today. In the fifth inning of a tied 1920 game, New York Yankee spitballer Carl Mays faced Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman, who was crowding the plate. All my neighbors already have their displays of lights set to Yankee Stadium brightness. When I saw him at Yankee Stadium, he was as sober as a judge and pitched one of the greatest games of his life. Sue all Northern Yankee States for forcing snowbirds to leave by criminal tacit encouragement of bad weather. Given these circumstances, Lorenzo's rhyming reproach to his Yankee public, if ungracious, is surely understandable. Matsui finally gained some redemption in the fifth, singling home Williams from second after the Yankee centerfielder had doubled. Slaveowners claimed that their practices, unlike sharp and shrewd Yankee treatment of factory workers, were unprofitable. Tomorrow, the showdown with Asafa Powell and the Yankee Boyz shall take place. Yogi Berra, another Yankee, gave him the most trouble until he got a tip from California pitching coach Marv Grissom. So did my New England Yankee public schoolmarms, but they and their policies have passed out of the culture and even the law. Many black teachers were themselves once students of the typical Yankee schoolmarms. Unless you'd rather believe that the Yankee hitters all hate him and are tanking deliberately in games when he starts. Now everyone outside of New York is running off at the mouth about how New Yorkers and Yankee fans are barbarians. But the complicating wrinkle is that Buddhism has been remade by Yankee imperialists before. Although 100 percent Dutch by lineage, Swimming World's male high school swimmer of the year, Matt Grevers, is a Yankee Doodle Dandy. As an Englishman, local PGA pro Richard Livingston hardly qualifies as a Yankee Doodle Dandy. Before we left Cape Town we bent on the storm mainsail and set a Yankee jib in the groove of the furling gear. Show More Sentences I went forward and lowered the staysail so that it did not blanket the wind from the small, Yankee jib. The normally cautious Yankee Group is even more bullish, projecting 42 million satellite radio subscribers in as little as five years. For sheer excitement it would be hard to surpass the M.D.Betting Yankee stake final at Newbridge Friday. Matthew McConaughey would be perfect as Dennis, if he didn't have to play a Yankee in a civil war reenactment. With their swords and muskets raised the Yankee soldier began killing every confederate soldier in sight. The Yankee pen has been shaky all year and needed El Duque to get a big out versus Oakland. Complaints about insufficient allied spending, long vented by Yankee supremos, have been especially irksome for Europeans coming from the ructious Apprentice mogul. Even if he doesn't die in war, which is no doubt God's plan for the corrupt cur, and if he doesn't run away with a Yankee brat as I predict, you shan't see him. One of the employees I had become friends with over the summer grabbed me and dragged me over to the huge picture window that overlooked the playing field of Yankee Stadium. In other words, the differences between a Yankee, a Southerner, and a plainsman were insignificant compared to the differences between a German, a Frenchman, and an Italian. Expected to be sidelined a minimum of six weeks by the setback, Lee sounded off angrily against what he considered dirty tactics by his Yankee enemies. The rowing contingent went first, led by four venerable Banks dories, the traditional high-ended, flat-bottomed boats emblematic of Yankee seafaring. In Europe, Pointer is stocked in stores with names like Americana and Yankee Doodle. Met him on the D train going to Yankee Stadium one day and spent that afternoon watching a ballgame with him in the press box. He may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother. Reading his letter, I thought of the famous exchange between the Confederate soldier and his Yankee captor. The Yankee comandante David Grann, The New Yorker A story of love, revolution, and betrayal. So the game ends, the Yanks are swept by the Mets and dad tells us that he put a new flag up in front of the house to replace my mother's Yankee flag. When I ask if you would please get me a Coke, you're supposed to ask me what kind of Coke, because I could mean a Sprite or a Dr. Pepper, you Yankee. As the seemingly token Yankee on this here corner of the blogosphere, I almost feel it necessary for me to apologize for my northern brethren, and quite frankly for myself. Show More Sentences Far from being an isolated port, one early nineteenth-century view of Monterey harbor shows a Russian brig, a Yankee schooner, and another ship at anchor. Call him a Yankee Doodle Dandy and Andrew Wallace will laugh. It seemed so strange to him how Ally had almost disappeared, not even resurfacing to attend the two ALDS games that had been played at Yankee Stadium. But at least you'll have shown up those Yankee imperialists! He was there at Gettysburg, gallantly leading outnumbered Yankee divisions before suffering a neck injury. According to tradition, the typical Yankee peddler was thought to be so shrewd that he could carve and sell counterfeit nutmegs. A collection of short stories, On the Yankee Station, appeared in 1981 and was followed by An Ice-Cream War, a serio-comic tale set in East Africa during the First World War. Every drinker with functioning tastebuds who has had the good fortune to sup a pint of Rooster's Yankee has one thought when placing a drained glass upon soggy beer mat. However, the Russian fur trade in this area was threatened by Yankee traders, who not only collected furs, but brought shiploads of rum and guns for the local Indians. Day after day, Lou sat on the Yankee bench, a perch that increasingly represented his security. The antipathy of the Yankee stars was allegedly touched off by a slighting remark Gehrig's mother made about the way Mrs Ruth dressed their daughter. The major question for the Republican Party going forward is what all these Yankee newcomers will mean for its direction. Jeter currently holds the Yankee record for stolen bases, and in 2009, he earned the hits record, as well. My seats were in the right field bleachers, notoriously the most profane, obnoxious and uproarious section in Yankee Stadium, if not in all of baseball. But almost from the moment he arrived in Baltimore to begin his new life as a Yankee, he discovered that his new world would be even more electric, if not quite as uproarious. But it was the Yankee bullpen which really let things get out of hand. Looking at Yankee Stadium it appears you can buy a ticket for one of the nosebleed seats, and then after the game starts pick any seat you want from about row 10 up. The Yankee Candle Company has added Camouflage as one of two new, limited-edition scents to its Man Candles collection. De Wolf's ship, the Yankee, was possibly the most financially successful ship of the war. To the south, I could see a white cloud spuming up from Vermont Yankee, like a pillar. Show More Sentences When he came home from Yankee Stadium, my stoopball associate, Fiskie Benjamin, and I waited to interrogate him. The menu of Durgin-Park s airport restaurant will comprise fresh seafood, Yankee pot roast, New England clam chowder and Boston baked beans. Each Yankee Homecoming features a grand marshal and numerous street vendors. Malory's work served as inspiration for Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court. The contrast with the standard image of a pious, theologically orthodox Yankee tunesmith could not be more striking. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, a novel by Mark Twain in 1889, takes place in Camelot. For example, the quintessential American word Yankee may be a corruption of a Dutch name, Jan Kees. Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. But with one swing of the bat, Derek Jeter knocked Gehrig down a peg in the Yankee record books. His chase for an abstraction was finally over, and he could go back to the day-in, day-out job of being Derek Jeter, Yankee shortstop. Over the years it has become known as strip, road and track among its many fans in Yankee land. The ladies aren't scheduled to fish Yankee land yet, but that's probably only a matter of time. Same at Yankee Doodles in Woodland Hills, where 65 fans divided into English and Spanish-speaking sections during the tense penalty-ridden match. I think it's great,'' said Jay Miller, general manager of Yankee Doodles, a popular sports bar nightclub in Woodland Hills. The throw by Yankee outfielder Shane Spencer went literally berserk. Currently, he leads dance classes at Yankee Doodles in Woodland Hills every Wednesday night. Drake's products include Ring Dings, Yodels, Devil Dogs, Yankee Doodles, Sunny Doodles, and Drake's Coffee Cake. Even in last year's strike-shortened season, ballparks collectively sold enough hot dogs to stretch from Yankee Stadium to Coors Field. Published in 1889, Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, uses an electric fence for defensive purposes. The mill owners recruited young Yankee farm girls from the surrounding area to come work the machines at Waltham. Show More Sentences The Yankee Homecoming Festival celebrates its 53rd year in Newburyport this year. In the Yankee, the initial indications of overspeeds, underspeeds and engine flameouts are remarkably similar. On June 19, a disappointing 40,000 saw the rematch at Yankee Stadium, in which Louis was not seriously tested. In 1938, Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in the first round of their rematch at Yankee Stadium. So long to a winner, a superstar, a gentleman, and a Yankee. In soccer, New York City is represented by New York City FC of Major League Soccer, who play their home games at Yankee Stadium. Cablevision owned the MSG cable network, which had shown Yankee games for 14 years until its contract with the team expired. He returned to the war-torn country on a second tour as a signaller with Yankee Commando, 45 Yankee company. It carries 22,000 SKUs and includes a restaurant and the Yankee Candlemaking Museum. Farrell was said to be so pleased with the experience that he considered moving the Yankee training camp to Bermuda permanently. To be sure Judge Fell and Mr. Miner were Federalists, but the first was an ardent Pennamite while the latter was a regular Yankee and claimant under Connecticut. The 27-year-old rooky lefty blew a five-run lead in his return to the rotation on Friday as the Seattle Mariners outslugged the Yankees 15-11 at Yankee Stadium. To protect against leaks, Yankee Gas uses magnesium as a sacrificial anode to cathodically protect short sections of main and isolated service lines. If you bring me a glass of sweet, iced tea, I will give you a Yankee dime. In Twain's work, a reading of the text in modern times is interrupted by a mysterious stranger who claims to be a Yankee who was sent back in time to the Arthurian era. The city's two current Major League Baseball teams are the New York Mets, who play at Citi Field in Queens, and the New York Yankees, who play at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. It took a big man to stand out in the sea of hundreds of thundering, chromed choppers, leather and cleavage outside Yankee Doodles in Woodland Hills on Sunday morning. Official ferry and transportation services to the Dry Tortugas includes the Yankee Freedom III catamaran, private vessel chartering and seaplane services. Yankee manager Joe Girardi benched Rodriguez for the Yankees 3-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday in favor of third baseman Eric Chavez and DH Raul Ibanez. But before we get the giggles about Yankee pooches on grass we shouldn't forget that at one stage many cows here who should have been on grass were actually on the angel dust. Show More Sentences This design paradigm proved ideal for the light Yankee airs. I immediately said yes, as I recognized The Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMaggio. According to those Yankee Doodles, us Brits are all la-di-da toffs. She attended A Connecticut Yankee, one of O'Sullivan's films playing in London's West End and told her parents of her ambitions to become an actress. George area and will provide the perfect link to the new Yankee minor league ballpark to the northwest and the new Lighthouse Museum to the south. Ladbrokes settle two selections in different races as a double, three as a trixie, four as a yankee and so on. Yankee Doodle Dandy, from 1942, tells the story of the man who practically wrote the soundtrack to American patriotism. Yankee whalers moved into the South Atlantic before the end of the 18th century. Yankee fans have been saying, Nyah, nyah, I told you so, since the news was revealed in The New York Times. She was a small fast and shallow draft centerboard schooner and her rig except for foretopmasts and yankee was identical to the Shrewsbury Packets. And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts. Yankee is a magazine for New Englanders based in Dublin, New Hampshire. The quidnunctious yankee woman is posted in gynecology. She never breeds. Examples from Classical Literature Did these Yankee ignoramuses suppose he did not share their aversion from the gaberdine or the three brass balls? Well, then, hall Hi can say his hit sounds like barmy Yankee nonsense to me. Drew snapped a shot at the Yankee guidon bearer, certain he saw the man flinch. If the Yankee were quick at work, he fulfilled the other sequent of the adage likewise. Bob inherited his handiness from his father, who seemed a master of all crafts, a true Yankee genius. He had the hatchet face of the clever Yankee, alert, sharply defined, with a high-bridged and rather bold English nose. When will the bars be thrown down so that the Canuck and the Yankee can trade as brothers and friends? In the rope-walks of the town, the cordage for the gallant Yankee ships was spun. Our Yankee trade is reputed to be very much on the extreme of this prudence. Like the Yankee Noodle, he cut capers that had no intelligible meaning in them, just to make people stare. Poetry came to Whittier through the chance visit of a Yankee gypsy, a pawky auld carle of a wandering Scotchman. The Cubans and the officers of the company alike came in for a good deal of straight-from-the-shoulder Yankee criticism. So early do well-taught Yankee children develop one qualification for the diaconate. The swans are warbling your name and so are half a dozen pesky Yankee Parrotts. We then entered Kirksville with flags flying, and drums beating Yankee Doodle. She tole him dey wuz ho'ses in de paster an' dat de Yankee camp wuz over near Laurinburg or somewhare like dat. When the guard mounted to his post he was sure he saw a temerarious Yankee in front of him, and hastened to slay him. They said that he was a Tennessean, and had joined the Yankee army, and they showed them no quarter. No matter what the situation might be, the Yankee could not lose sight of the main chance. Perhaps it was the reputation for wiliness Forrest had earned which put the Yankee commander on his guard. Show More Sentences The keenest Yankee that ever skinned a flint, cannot approach him in trickiness. A logical Yankee mind operates as an accoucheur to bring that to daylight with which the events are pregnant. Both disliked Home very much, and thought him an underbred Yankee quack and charlatan. Mr. Brice was a Yankee and no gentleman, inasmuch as he had overbid a lady for Hester. We laid siege to New Bern and were soon under heavy shelling from the Yankee gunboats. If the Yankee noncom was thinking of trying something, his material was not promising. The charmless Yankee woman he had encountered to his discomfiture from the moment his steamer left Havre. That cayman with his mouth open is like the Yankee waiting for Colombia to walk in. He had slews and slathers of money, as Yankee Bill would say. Now she's editor of the Magazine, Yankee Doodle's unbearable, to my mind. The new-comers seemed to be largely Yankee and German, almost everywhere. No Yankee or bluenose officer ever man-handled a good seaman. De Yankee tell we to go en buckra corn house and git w'at we want for eat. The little boy had the cent ready, but, like a true-born Yankee, would have preferred the better bargain to the worse. This renders us strictly Yankee in our origin, an extraction of which I find all who enjoy it fond of boasting. He was a big, brawny, black Yankee with a claw foot look in his eyes. The bear sat upon his haunches and complacently regarded the Yankee. Does it not hurt your Yankee pride that we thrash you so confoundedly? The Colonel would compress his lips, cussing every Yankee on earth. She's almost ready to send to Davy Jones's locker a Yankee ship or two. Show More Sentences Then my mother took him to the Yankee garrison at Fayetteville. According to the paper, the baseball that Lou Gehrig hit into the Yankee Stadium bleachers was during game two of the 1928 World Series. And I flirting with little Yankee girls, and teaching them to swim! He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth. Our geography, that is to say, is too much for the Yankee brain. When he was a very young man he was in the Yankee military academy what you call West Point. He seems to get up a speech as in Yankee land they get up a bedquilt. Can the Yankee regiments with their slouchy Dutchmen hope to capture it! What made that great bunch of Yankee boys turn back the Hun hordes? The Yankee spotter was in the treasure house of Ranch Robin. And that iniquitous Yankee scoundrel who has slipped through my fingers. Pe ye a Yankee peddler, MIT chewelry in your pack, to sheat the gals? He had a shrewd, good sort of face, and a Yankee twang to his speech. The undine, outfought by two Yankee gunboats, was beached and set afire. Does not some Yankee say that the American viviparous aphides are winged? You remember, when I wanted to shoot that Yankee off my horse? Did you see that Yankee lieutenant with the big sabre-cut on his shoulder? When are you going to get some new hair ribbons, Yankee Doodle? Every Yankee I see had de stamp of poor white trash on them. The place, the ranch house of a rawboned Yankee named Hawkins. Show More Sentences They say the Jeune Amelie was his, which was taken by the Yankee privateer Molasses. This name was not a Yankee vulgarism, but a well-known old English term. They give better satisfaction than the American fruit-pickers, too, and the Yankee grower is glad to get them. They were all from Yankee land, in pursuit of fame and fortune. He looks like a Yankee, with that goatee hanging from his chin. Abijah Flagg was summoned, lifted the well cover, explored, found the inciting cause of trouble, and with the help of Yankee wit succeeded in removing it. Tishman Speyer, the owner of trophy assets such as the Rockefeller Center, the Metlife Building and Yankee Stadium, is undergoing a leadership handover. The very cattle looked more tranquil than ours, as they stood knee-deep in clover, and the hens had a contented cluck, as if they never got nervous like Yankee biddies. Beats all these tales we hear about murders in Yankee ships. Months afterward we got a card from Otto, saying that Jake had been down with mountain fever, but now they were both working in the Yankee Girl Mine, and were doing well. Find more words! 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