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    Use "pluck" in a sentence

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    1. It took about a week for me to pluck up the courage to steal the teaspoon


    2. and a time to pluck up that which is planted;


    3. Here it seems like we pluck shreds of paper with tweezers for its fuel value and there's shiploads of it down there


    4. you all are these the only tests of pluck? Where my humble life


    5. There was also fruit, because my brother Nikos had climbed halfway up the cliff to pluck pears from a tree that jutted out


    6. I guided Izzy to sing her energy into a spun web, which expanded into delicate strands she could pluck and project towards the objects in front of her


    7. When she saw the portentous expression on his face, like a child waiting for the Magician to pluck fire from the air, she couldn't contain herself, and burst out laughing, dumping the exercise books on the floor and falling back on the sofa


    8. Orion held the Harp of Souls to pluck the three strings again


    9. Empress of the Office, where she spent most mornings on the red willow love seat that faces my desk, raising her regal head only at unfamiliar sounds: in winter, the heavy snow sliding off the metal roof and crashing to the deck below, startling us both; in early spring, the northern flickers trying in vain to pluck insulation for their nests from the roof vents; a heavy summer rain; the grinding noise of the propane truck making its first delivery in fall


    10. The small fury feathers were the hardest to pluck clean, as they would stick to your hands and the bird and anything else that made contact with them (like my shirt, pants, face, and boots)

    11. “A time to be , and a time to ; a time to , and a time to pluck up that which is planted” (Ecclesiastes 3:2)


    12. The water was rising, and she continued to pluck at the loose, dead skin, hanging there in grisly folds and pleats


    13. 15 Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net


    14. 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;


    15. shall you say to him, The Lord says so; See, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up,


    16. pluck out my eyes, and consume my entrails


    17. 49 And all the mighty men of the Kinites tried to pluck it when they endeavored to get Zipporah his daughter, but they were unsuccessful


    18. 16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:


    19. 25 When you come into the standing corn of your neighbour, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle onto your neighbour's standing corn


    20. So, when you wear it and strum or pluck it and are thus affected by magic, if you look in a mirror you will not be able to see it

    21. Fingers reach up to pluck long, green leaves and the juice of them melts over his palm


    22. At briefings when he was on the platform in front of the squadron, he would pluck the metal pen-pointer from his left sleeve pocket, expand it with a flourish, then tap the board or map or wherever it was he wanted the pilots to focus their attention


    23. 30 No not if you pluck out my eyes and consume my entrails


    24. As they went His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain rubbing the ears of grain in their hands and eat


    25. With his final words, Tregannon reached out his hand to her as if he would pluck her back from her chosen path and align her for all time-cycles to his


    26. 9 If your eye causes you to stumble pluck it out and cast it from you


    27. Woe to the world because of trials! but woe to that man by whose hand the trials come If your hand or your foot injure you cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to enter into life being halt or crippled and not that you should have two hands or two feet and fall into the hell of fire that burns forever; 19 where their worm dies not and their fire is not quenched; And if your eye seduce you pluck it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to enter the Kingdom of Godwith one eye than that you should have two eyes and fall into the 22 fire of Gehenna; where their worm dies not and their fire is not quenched


    28. You have heard that it was said by them of ancient times: You shall not commit adultery but I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart and if your right eye offends you pluck it out and throw it from you because it is profitable for you that one of your body parts should perish and so that your whole body should not be thrown into Hell; and if your right hand offends you cut it off and throw it away from you because it is profitable for you that one of your body parts should perish and that your whole body should not be thrown into Hell


    29. Disaster to the world because of offences! because it needs to happen that offences come but disaster to that man by whom the offence comes! Therefore if your hand or foot offends you cut them off and throw them from you; It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed rather than having two hands or two feet to be thrown into the everlasting fire; and if your eye offend you pluck it out and throw it away from you; It is better for you to enter into life with one eye rather than having two eyes to be thrown into the fire of Hell


    30. when they were formed? How could I ever expect to pluck out

    31. "Hey, I need help to pluck this turkey bird," Izzy said


    32. unnatural and confined spaces of the buildings, were free to pluck


    33. tied to a rock, where it would flap and exercise its wings, pluck


    34. touch the instrument and his dad let him pluck the strings every one in a while


    35. they’d then happily pluck it up and run off to play with it, leaving me with the bunny poop in


    36. I was determined to pluck the feathery killer


    37. Listen, Suzie couldn't pluck your brows


    38. She made her way to her parent’s grave site and knelt beside the grave and started to pluck the weeds which had sprouted from her last visit


    39. Stick with me, as I pluck away at the warp and woof of that insight


    40. With this in mind she ventured to creep from her refuge to pluck and eat nuts which grew sparsely near at hand

    41. When they saw Andrew rub the grain in his hand, they went up to him and said: "Do you not know that it is unlawful to pluck and rub the grain on the Sabbath day?" And Andrew answered: "But we are hungry and rub only sufficient for our needs; and since when did it become sinful to eat grain on the Sabbath day?" But the Pharisees answered: "You do no wrong in eating, but you do break the law in plucking and rubbing out the grain between your hands; surely your Master would not approve of such acts


    42. " Then said Andrew: "But if it is not wrong to eat the grain, surely the rubbing out between our hands is hardly more work than the chewing of the grain, which you allow; wherefore do you quibble over such trifles?" When Andrew intimated that they were quibblers, they were indignant, and rushing back to where Jesus walked along, talking to Matthew, they protested, saying: "Behold, Teacher, your apostles do that which is unlawful on the Sabbath day; they pluck, rub, and eat the grain


    43. ' The servants then asked their master, `Would you have us go out and pluck up these weeds?' But he answered them and said: `No, lest while you are gathering them up, you uproot the wheat also


    44. My Father, who has given me these children, is greater than all, so that no one is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand


    45. He tried to paint my lips and pluck my eyebrows but I pushed him away before he could inflict such tortures on me


    46. Then they would gather the helpless squalling babies for the pot, laughing about how they wouldn’t have a lot of feathers to pluck


    47. cool would come up to you and pluck you out of the crowd of losers


    48. Then pluck off the


    49. Then after he is done with you, I’m going to pluck those big weird eyes out and tear your fuckin’ weird-looking head off that scrawny ass body of yours,” I screamed at him


    50. � looking Steve in the eyes he tries to pluck up some courage but fails miserably as he has to break the stare and looks down at the floor, his face pale with fear










































    1. Woman and Serpent traveled to the center of the Garden and she plucked a fruit from the tree


    2. plucked a violin string, marvelled again at the resonance


    3. He plucked the rigid pastry from Williams’ hand and gnawed through it in anger


    4. ' With great concentration, he plucked a string and listened


    5. He did it again until he was satisfied, then plucked the others and tuned them to the same questions


    6. He was overjoyed when he plucked the last petal from the now bald flower head and found that she loved him


    7. And he had been with Lord Boras since plucked from a Scather raid as a young toddler, he thought to himself angrily


    8. could still fly, and if they could still fly he plucked off their wings


    9. He was overjoyed when he plucked


    10. Somehow, though, she has never plucked up the courage

    11. producing a case of cigars and plucked one out of the silver case


    12. Roman plucked the torch from the ground next to the curtain


    13. He then walked over to Lemoss and plucked Granny's teaspoon from his top pocket, giving it a gentle rub with his thumb, and their camping gear appeared


    14. The kid she had plucked from the stars would leave her to become a hero and save the world from his evil parents


    15. Bri Lynn had a short sword and a small round shield, both of which she plucked from her mentor's body, and was doing little more than tucking her body behind the shield while the jagged blades covered it with dents


    16. Rosecare awoke and plucked the apple from Lemoss's up stretched hand, she threw it over to the goat


    17. shoulder and plucked a few strings


    18. Father plucked the shafts and hurled them back


    19. He snarled under his breath and lamented the loss of what could have been waiting to be plucked from some impressive heap


    20. Song and Deni scurried over to the shelves and with Deni on Song's shoulders they carefully plucked the unit off its perch and delivered it to an appreciative Pim

    21. But the way souls could be plucked from hollowed out rib cages of those yet living, was something that had always inspired great shudders in his broad Nordic frame


    22. It then presented her with the standard icon menu functions to be plucked out of the air


    23. She reached over and plucked at Frank's sleeve


    24. A truck door slammed and strong hands plucked her out of the snow


    25. It seems that this butcher had enjoyed a busy day and had only one plucked chicken left


    26. Dropping to the ground, she plucked a piece of grass and tucked it between her lips as she leaned back against the old apple tree


    27. Slowly a twinkle started in his eyes and a smile plucked at the corners of his mouth


    28. One of the men plucked up enough courage to go over to Halon, and with his knife, lifted his hair then jumped backwards


    29. fixed, the chickens we plucked from the


    30. “Thank you,” Amaranthe said anyway and plucked a half-full bottle off the top of the passing stack

    31. He reached for the bill, but Sicarius plucked it out of the air first


    32. Once he saw it was empty, he plucked it up and smiled


    33. He bent and deftly plucked it from its escape route


    34. ” Tuskar plucked another toothpick off his desk and slipped it into his mouth


    35. ” Arbitan sauntered forward and plucked up the bag


    36. Grey sulkily plucked a tick from his leg and examined it, cracking the hard insect with his teeth


    37. And I have plucked them from the midst of their brethren


    38. The ostrich plucked the sock from Shooter's hand, deftly flicking the offending object over the roof of the car


    39. “Thank Goodness” she gave out a sigh of relief that instantly plucked


    40. Dorian plucked the duffel out of my arms as I stepped back into the living area, slinging it over his shoulder as I put the sunglasses and my own coat on, hooking the one that Worth had given me that morning over my arm along with the purse

    41. The moonstone! Her protection! She turned her head and plucked the stone out of her back-feathers with her strong beak


    42. Suddenly realising what was happening, Fin plucked the lamp off the ground and shook it


    43. They spent three days on the water, skin broiling to blisters under the sun, before a US Coast Guard cutter plucked them from the sea and delivered them to a refugee center located at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba


    44. They re-closed their luggage and, before leaving the room, Elizabeth plucked two hairs from her head and looped one around the catches on each of their suitcases, so that if they were opened, the strands of hair would be broken


    45. He frantically plucked at the leads and hoses


    46. It could have been a scene plucked out of a 50’s crime noir


    47. Tania and Janus just looked at them for a moment, then Janus plucked up the courage to ask what Araltall had in mind


    48. plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear


    49. I hear voices in the living room—a chorus of them, in fact, joined by occasional bursts of laughter and a faint melody plucked on an instrument, a banjo or a guitar


    50. the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the









































    1. with the feathers from the old woman’s plucking of her geese,


    2. He walked down the street towards his home plucking the petals from the flower as he repeated that lover’s mantra of old: “She loves me, she loves me not”


    3. It could be plucking a leaf off of a tree


    4. finally plucking up the courage to ask a question, “What’s it called?”


    5. "Hurry, Theodorous, they're coming stronger now," Bri Lynn said, plucking away at the advancing horde with a short bow while the rest of the soldiers cut down any of the advancing undead she couldn't hit


    6. said yes and I began plucking the strings of my guitar softly and


    7. The soft plucking of the guitar notes blended beautiful with


    8. “Sorry, but we need your ribbon back,” a blushing judge murmured, plucking at his white coat


    9. Fiendish tortures were also often resorted to, especially with prisoners of war, when the executioners vied with each other in devising fearful methods of torture, such as flaying alive, plucking out eyes, and even more original devices


    10. The enraged soldiers soon ceased to discriminate, and several harmless pacificos were shot plucking mangoes, and many insurgents were killed at night by pickets, for not answering the foreign challenge promptly

    11. In the meantime the wind had become stronger and whipped through the tree, shaking branches and plucking leaves


    12. After plucking, the leaves are withered over fires made of pine wood,


    13. plucking so worth the burning as there was in Signer Guy Fawkes'


    14. fingers in the plucking, and mayhap you too may live to know that a


    15. “Do you have any recommendations this week?” he asked, plucking a pad and pencil out of a bulging briefcase


    16. Plucking three large petals from a brilliant white rose, She cupped them in Her hands, turning the edges onto each other, rubbing them gently with Her thumbs


    17. Uncle Wes was strumming a danceable rock melody with his lead guitar; the drummer kicked it in extra hard while banging his head to the rhythm, and the bassist followed the enthusiasm by plucking a hard ass bass swing


    18. plucking affectionately at the waistband of my swim trunks


    19. 55 And that which you saw of the river which turned to an egg as at first, and the young bird plucking out your eye, this means nothing else but the seed of Abram who will kill the king in the latter days


    20. But now instead of plucking a little note in

    21. 55 And that which you saw of the river which turned to an egg as at first and the young bird plucking out your eye this means nothing else but the seed of Abram who will kill the king in the latter days


    22. This will allow a far more consistent effect than plucking it by hand


    23. I think the constant drone of it will be less irritating than plucking it was


    24. The Professor’s eyes open and he stopped his damn plucking


    25. the lantern, Onni picking up his string instrument and plucking


    26. “I'm sure,” he said, reaching up and playfully plucking the wig


    27. childhood memories contain only my Mother, picking, plucking and


    28. Nightmares about his headless father became enmeshed with the stoning of Stephen, Lucy plucking out her eyes, Sebastian perforated by arrows, Catherine broken on cart-wheels, young men and women torn to shreds and eaten alive in arenas, nails driven through hands and other such tortures


    29. “He is one-of-a-kind,” she whispered and Peggy put an orange flower still unopened in her hand along with a pouch that was stuffed with the leaves that they had been plucking


    30. When they saw Andrew rub the grain in his hand, they went up to him and said: "Do you not know that it is unlawful to pluck and rub the grain on the Sabbath day?" And Andrew answered: "But we are hungry and rub only sufficient for our needs; and since when did it become sinful to eat grain on the Sabbath day?" But the Pharisees answered: "You do no wrong in eating, but you do break the law in plucking and rubbing out the grain between your hands; surely your Master would not approve of such acts

    31. She saw them climbing and plucking among the trees, and her pretty mouth watered


    32. He felt the weird strains plucking like unseen fingers at the tissues of his brain, filling him with alien emotions and impulses of madness


    33. ?‖ Skeets‘ snatched the tossed keys with the precision of a duck plucking a fly from the air


    34. He was plucking the petals from the flowers and letting them float down onto the fresh dirt


    35. Richard is plucking the knots from his hair and dropping them


    36. broken-down doll that they carried back and forth from one corner to another wrapped in colored cloth and with her face painted with soot and annatto, and once they were on the point of plucking out her eyes with the pruning shears as they had done with the frogs


    37. The driver of the vehicle used a virtual reality glove control to operate the jaws, and he could work tirelessly, as though plucking dandelions


    38. His long fingers were frozen in the act of plucking the strings


    39. “…So the Boblovian Message is, in essence, the plucking of an inner string within each of us


    40. Jeanne, busy plucking out wild grass, only saw Pierre and the soldiers once they were only a few meters from her

    41. Entire days would see her seated in the dirt, plucking rocks from the ground to toss into the brown river


    42. He did a few circuits of the cage, plucking up the courage to pull the cover from it


    43. That’s him! Got ya, pal! Game on! Van Buren Street? What are the chances? Mark and Susan must be pulling and plucking the strings with the gods now


    44. off ranting wildmen hillstruck pill plucking ravens hair again- nothing to dedicate this


    45. And where is Soren and Ivar in all of this?” He sat down on the floor and crossed his legs, plucking away at the chicken’s feathers


    46. But plucking up his courage, he continued, “In general, I thought… that with the help of this Art… they can’t hide anywhere… from my… revenge


    47. The Empire of Lycania is a ripe peach, ready for the plucking


    48. A sign said it was for the salvation of souls and a picture showed angels plucking naked figures from the gates of hell


    49. He draped a rosary over the cross then unfurled a painting of an angel plucking souls from the gates of hell


    50. ” The Straps begin screaming out the sound a plucking violinist might make









































    1. Fixer plucks a dandelion as an example but his words


    2. He plucks another shrimp from the plate on his desk, “One more bite


    3. An infected young budgie cannot properly digest her food; even though she feeds heavily, she loses weight, plucks herself, screams, and is obviously uncomfortable


    4. Sergei plucks these metals as well as gold and silver from ocean depths of over 4000 meters


    5. Sometimes he tears out its feathers before slaughtering it, or even plucks out its head by hand without using knife


    6. "No!" Tee screams and she plucks the


    7. He greedily plucks and devours the white Gods’ Eye bloom, then another, then another


    8. Glacia plucks up the rest of my berries and uses them as eyes for her pancake smiley face


    9. the grains of Magnesite & PLUCKS it out thus resulting in terrible wear of


    10. The vendor plucks it up and holds it out to her excitedly

    11. And as he watches attentively, one of the heavenly being plucks a fruit from the nearest tree,


    12. I mean what kind of straight bloke plucks his eyebrows and spends £70 on a hair cut?" Tracey giggled


    13. With Him it is 'the Devil’ who plucks away the good seed sown in man’s heart;—the 'enemy who sows tares’ among the wheat to ruin the crop is the Devil;—falsehood is traced by him tip to no abstract origin of evil, but to its fountain in the Devil; 'for he is a liar and the father of it


    14. Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?


    15. Cissy Caffrey bent over to him to tease his fat little plucks and the dainty dimple in his chin


    16. (The camel, lifting a foreleg, plucks from a tree a large mango fruit, offers it to his mistress, blinking, in his cloven hoof, then droops his head and, grunting, with uplifted neck, fumbles to kneel


    17. From his shoulders, chest, and hair, he plucks hot pieces of stone and wood


    18. Franny stands beside Werner and plucks his wrist off the crate he is about to open


    19. He finds them, and Volkheimer plucks them out


    20. She plucks some loose pages from a file and drops them on the table

    21. " In our old poems of exploits, Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots


    22. There, too, I admired, though I did not gather, the cranberries, small waxen gems, pendants of the meadow grass, pearly and red, which the farmer plucks with an ugly rake, leaving the smooth meadow in a snarl, heedlessly measuring them by the bushel and the dollar only, and sells the spoils of the meads to Boston and New York; destined to be jammed, to satisfy the tastes of lovers of Nature there


    23. Oh, he is spontaneous, he is a marvelous mingling of good and evil, he is a lover of culture and Schiller, yet he brawls in taverns and plucks out the beards of his boon companions


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    Synonyms for "pluck"

    pluck gutsiness pluckiness cull pick deplumate deplume displume pull tear plunk pick off pull off tweak fleece gazump hook overcharge plume rob soak surcharge hustle roll jerk rip snatch tug yank boldness courage determination mettle nerve resolution spirit

    "pluck" definitions

    the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury


    the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord


    pull or pull out sharply


    sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity


    rip off; ask an unreasonable price


    pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion


    strip of feathers


    look for and gather