pluck up

Example Sentences

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But Ecclesiastes got it right about everything having a season, “a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.”

From Los Angeles Times

Following a speedy rise, Tom played in a World Cup final in 2019 at the age of 21, which his brother was allowed to watch after a social media campaign #GetBenToJapan helped him pluck up the courage to ask if he could miss Sale's game against Bristol to travel to Japan.

From BBC

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who has so far resisted calls to reinstate Ms Abbott as a Labour MP - said the PM should pluck up the "courage to hand back the £10m".

From BBC

It had taken me a year to pluck up the courage to tell him that I was engaging in self-induced vomiting, food restriction and laxative and diuretic abuse.

From Washington Post

It took me 10 minutes to pluck up the courage to call him, to ask if he and his partner were all right.

From BBC