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Example sentences for: plucked

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Such European and Chinese musical instruments as violin, guitar, flute, and pipa (a plucked stringed instrument) are well made and usually well priced.
Deputy Editor Jack Shafer, plucked at its very peak of ripeness, and e-mailed to you so fresh it gleams.
The LAT fronts, and the WP and NYT stuff, the developing saga of that 5-year-old Cuban refugee boy plucked from the ocean near Miami on Thanksgiving morning.
It makes you feel as if you'd been plucked out of your own life and plopped down into someone else's repressed family.
In general the fruit should form in good-sized bunches on the vine, ripen at a reasonable pace, and be plucked when fully ripe.