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 image is colored, too, by the existence, in both AE and BE, of a type of light, mobile hydraulic crane provided with a basket or platform enabling one to approach a tall structure (like an American ice-cream sundae) from above to pluck the cherry from the top.

  • The native peoples are back again in areas like this, leaning far out over precarious rocky ledges to pluck with dip nets just a tiny amount of salmon, compared with the millions caught by the commercial fisheries at the Fraser estuary.

  • The most striking recent development has been the popularity of the pluck yew story, which conflates the origin of fuck with an earlier piece of folklore about the origin of the offensive backhand two-finger gesture.

  • His languid figures lined up across the canvas do almost nothing; they can sometimes work up the energy to idly pluck a lute, or to roll the dice on a backgammon table (see , at the Metropolitan).

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


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