Example sentences for: pluck

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

  • Staccato violins pluck out stereotypical Chinese music.

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

  • 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.

  • There's a one-in-two chance that Bob's full sibling Bill has the same gene and, thus, that a successful rescue mission will pluck an otherwise doomed copy of the gene from the dustbin of history.

  • 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.


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