pluck
Example Sentences
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Her bowed tones flow like a violinist’s, her plucked solos sometimes bite like a bebop trumpet.
My fingers itch to pluck off the bits of stray grass and throw the whole load in the washer for her, but I’m suddenly so exhausted I can hardly keep my eyes open.
From Literature
To the left, a couple of small couches and low tables looked plucked out of a hotel lobby.
From Literature
He will be battling a Frankenstein-like rival mammoth built by scientists from a jumble of various mammoth bones also plucked from the tar pits.
And before him, the Hurricanes plucked Cam Ward from Washington State—he wound up as the No. 1 overall pick of last year’s NFL draft.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
