plucked

His big break came in 1992 when an aging cardinal plucked him from his outback and persuaded the Vatican to make him a bishop.

He plucked them and flushed the feathers carefully, so as not to block up the toilets and draw attention.

“Umm…they maintain themselves,” she responded when asked whether or not they were threaded, plucked, or waxed.

She was plucked from relative obscurity to star alongside Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman in the TV adaptation.

As he spoke he plucked a solitary gold-fish squirming and twisting out of its globe.

Edna plucked all the bright flowers she could find, and went into the house with them, she and the little dog.

She plucked and tore at her arms for a little time; but I held her hands, and she soon dropped off.

Woe to you if you fall into his clutches; before you come out of them you will be plucked, veritably flayed.

The newsdealer was looking the other way as he made change so Lamb plucked back his nickel.

In a sudden, blind choler, she swept round, plucked the dagger from Tressan's belt and flung herself upon the treacherous captain.