Example sentences for: pluck

How can you use “pluck” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But the market has clearly signaled a future in which guanxi , or connections, will count as much as traditional pluck and enterprise.

  • The recent twist has been to note the fact that longbows are traditionally made of yew wood, and claim that the act of drawing the bowstring was called plucking yew; the victorious English not only waved their fingers at the French, but shouted We can still pluck yew!

  • by referring to the goings-on at a chicken-processing plant as a "gang pluck."

  • The missionary told the cook what to prepare for dinner: “Go out and catch that old rooster, pluck it, and put it in the refrigerator.

  • Usually, to make a first name into a nickname we just pluck out the most prominent syllable, like Sue from Susan , and either leave it plain or make a diminutive out of it by adding - ie or - y: Susie or Suzy .


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