Words similar to pluck

Example sentences for: pluck

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

by referring to the goings-on at a chicken-processing plant as a "gang pluck."
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.
It was just like John to use the common elevator instead of, say, chartering a helicopter to pluck him off the 14 th floor and deposit him on the 18 th , or buying a rocket pack, or rappelling up the side of the building, all of which, I knew, he could have chosen.
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!
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 .