pluck

Example Sentences

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After “Let ’Em In,” McCartney asked his band member Brian Ray to show off the song’s all-important bass line: a single note plucked over and over and over again.

From Los Angeles Times

The condition causes him to obsessively pluck his beard or eyebrows when anxious or bored.

From BBC

Sticking only with the U.S. and just plucking a ticker symbol out of a hat would put the probability of picking the coming century’s champ at barely 0.02%.

From The Wall Street Journal

Paul, the first contestant not to be plucked from the Bachelor Nation, broke that mould in many ways.

From BBC

It was a few days before I plucked up enough courage to go out into the garden to see Marlene on my own.

From Literature