Words similar to plucked

Example sentences for: plucked

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In general the fruit should form in good-sized bunches on the vine, ripen at a reasonable pace, and be plucked when fully ripe.
"The winds have plucked off slabs of concrete and left the sidewalks gap-toothed," the NYT correspondent writes.
It makes you feel as if you'd been plucked out of your own life and plopped down into someone else's repressed family.
Literally, “plucked,” or “bald,” el pelado was a designation used for a clownish performer, an improvised character type developed by performing theater groups in the 1920s, in Mexico and in the Southwest.
Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.