How To Use Pluck In A Sentence

Brunhild, a mischievous, strong-minded goldfish (the voice of Noah Cyrus, Miley's younger sister), is determined to become a little girl when she's rescued from a jar and befriended by Sosuke (the voice of Frankie Jonas, the Jonas Brothers 'kid brother), a plucky, self-reliant 5-year-old. No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'
We drove home in silence and, when he parked in our long driveway, I stopped to pluck some ixora flowers while Nnamabia unlocked the front door. Excerpt: The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
So I opened each pod one by one, plucking the beans inside.
The convention plucked him from the pastorate to head the foreign mission board.
From the outset, we get the kind of writing beloved of a certain kind of creative writing teacher: the kind you can pluck out and quote admiringly.

Carpe diem (Pluck the day; Seize the day).
Born Princess Sophia of the minor German principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, reared by an ambitious and self-centered mother, she was plucked out of near obscurity by the Russian czarina, Elizabeth, in 1744 as a bride for the heir to the Russian throne, Peter III. The Rise Of an Empress
Wendy couldn't help but admire the pluck and ingenuity these youngsters showed.
After I had observed every flower, and listened to a disquisition on every plant, I was permitted to depart; but first, with great pomp, he plucked a polyanthus and presented it to me, as one conferring a prodigious favour. Agnes Grey
Every four years, our brave lads and lasses tend to venture to foreign slopes with faint expectations, which will be duly fulfilled, as they wind up racing to a plucky 32nd in the giant slalom or 29th in the luge.
She was plucked from obscurity to instant stardom.
But their leaders were full of admiration for their pluck and cheerful acceptance of the conditions.
Oh, and let me tell you… I already did my hair, brushed my teeth, shaved, plucked, primped, deodorized, sprayed myself with cologne and got dressed before he even picked out the underwear he was going to wear.
His photograph of two camellia brooches could just as easily have been a study of two bold flowers plucked from a garden.
Earlier Aronhold had worked on plane curves and the problem of the nine points of inflection of the third order plane curve which had been discussed by Plücker some time before.
‘We just plucked our bags from the hold of the aircraft, and drove off,’ he says.
a plucky lampooner of the administration.
These threaded, plucked or shaved young soldiers are proving befuddling to an older generation of bushier warriors. About-Face: Soldiers Target Stray Eyebrows in Afghanistan
He walked on bravely, looking neither to the right nor left, till he reached the centre and plucked the tallest ear; but as he turned homewards a thousand sweet voices rose behind him, crying in tenderest accents, 'Pluck me too! oh, please pluck me too!' Tales of the Punjab
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Grow young players only for richer rivals to pluck the fruit when it is ripe? Times, Sunday Times
Her eyebrows were plucked flat, canopying small, olive drab, porcine eyes rimmed with red. Over the Edge
Plucky Anna bounces back from her ordeal the next morning, so eager is she to get a Van Gogh back to the nice lady who deserves it, but a Romanian tycoon dispatches a tiny hit woman to steal the painting away. Touch of Evil
What luck, cried the student and plucked the great flower.
When he looked around all he could see was just greenish vegetation from which he spotted some kind of a familiar plant where he plucked a few leaves and quickly crushed them using a stone.
One day she sat musing by a forest fountain, dressed in a robe of yellow silk, wantonly plucking the flowers which grew on the mossy parapet of the spring and binding them into a bouquet for the Clerk of Mezlean.
The result was an unlikely triumph plucked from the jaws of national humiliation. Times, Sunday Times
Marry, she can pluck a chick, and roll pastry, and use a bedstaff, and scour a floor, and sew, and the like. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
The plucked guitar finally overtakes the melodic refrain near the end of the piece, eventually wiping the beginning from memory.
A case in point is ‘Smelling Limes In Winter’ which begins with thrumming, dulcimer-like pluckings through which a central drone rises.
They upped the ante, too, with Cold Play's "Viva La Vida," done with plucky violin daring, of course, "Rasputin," and a very drummy swing standard that brought the house down. Times Record News Stories
Take for instance, his cantata: the use of pizzicato, or plucking strings, to express the clashing of swords.
This morning I was pawing through my jumbled collection of socks, looking for a match to an olive one I had already plucked from the drawer.
Then it would be slaughtered, plucked and cleaned in time for dinner on the day itself.
Towards the middle of the plain, there lay the bodies of several men who had fallen in the very act of grappling with the enemy; and there were seen countenances which still bore the stern expression of unextinguishable hate and defiance, hands which clasped the hilt of the broken falchion, or strove in vain to pluck the deadly arrow from the wound. The Monastery
Air France in L.A. has a firm and continued hold on worst firearm service, although in recent years British Air has pluckily attempted to give Air Chance a run for their money. Flying with Guns
He would have had little chance against them had not the slender lady very pluckily pulled up and returned to his help. The War of The Worlds
Once inside, things simply got worse for any shy, timid souls who plucked up the courage and made it past the front door.
The romantic picture of the plucky David girding himself against the brutish Goliath is dangerously misleading.
She popped the clasp on her clutch and plucked out her mobile phone.
Her flowers are exactingly painted, petal, leaf, and stalk; her plates and pheasants waiting to be plucked are textbook - perfect.
Some refugee children were plucked out of the country in a number of mercy missions.
I watched her fingers pluck the strings gracefully, feeling her courage getting greater with the song.
He was plucked from Australian waters off Arnhem Land.
Assuming one of my compadres has slipped, I brace for the fall, a routine reflex; however, because I do not believe my anchors will hold, my heart plugs my throat and I wait to be plucked into eternity.
On the modern harp, players pluck the strings near the middle with the pads of their fingers.
Political dishonesty ought to be plucked up by the roots.
He sat up and plucked a large ripe orange off the weighted tree.
The goal is to ensure that patients' spirits - their source of both peace and pluck - remain intact.
I should thank her every Thursday when I race home to pluck my Sports Illustrated from the mail slot.
Manchester City moved three points clear at the top of Division One and extended their unbeaten home run to 14 games, but made hard work of disposing of plucky Preston.
The son returns to be by his father's bedside, and finds that the old man has still a lot of pluck that he displays when his old friend turn up.
The ensuing Adagio with its long notes and plucked bass line made for welcome progress after a long first movement.
British cinema loves a plucky underdog character. Times, Sunday Times
Plucky firefighter Mark Murphy is back home from his heroic mission to help rescue people trapped in the Algerian earthquake.
As a bullfighter he had little natural grace, and limited ability, but he brought such pluck and valor to the corrida and became a favourite matador of Andalusia, of which Sevilla is the capital.
Mubuyu farms will employ over 1,500 coffee pluckers during the harvest period between April and September of which the majority will be women.
The shamisen is usually played with a single string, or by plucking an open string for a droning effect while the melody's picked our on one of the other strings, so hearing the fuller chords and harmony notes from these two instruments was a cool experience. Gil Asakawa: Monsters of Shamisen Rock in Colorado Concert
That mindset of being plucky underdogs against the giants runs through the team. Times, Sunday Times
The plucky youngster had to wait two years after her cancer treatment was complete before the operation could be carried out.
We plucked fresh figs, apples, plums and hazelnuts from trees heavy with crops.
Bassist Palladino can strum four strings, but his notes are delicate, dainty plucks compared to Entwistle's ability to work an electric bass.
He plucked a couple of plastic bags from the roll.
As the plucky younger side you expected them to gamble. Times, Sunday Times
But, unbeknown to his grieving colleagues above, the plucky soldier had managed to discover a pocket of air - after making an amazing 90 ft dive completely unaided.
Peregrine falcons usually pluck the feathers and strip the flesh off their bird prey.
I plucked an orange from the tree.
A workman was plucked from the roof of a burning power station by a police helicopter.
I think you should pluck up the courage to invite him out.
Hoshiko rolled onto her stomach, plucking blades of grass from the immaculate lawn.
She plucked a spill of burning cardboard off the plate, and putting the reefer to her lips, lit it. EVERVILLE
In between, one could pluck out a few good ideas: the lovers singing over a freshly dug grave; the ever-present reminder of Morold's coffin; the flash-forward of decades in Act III. Berlin Boos an Inert and Ugly 'Tristan'
Carpe diem (Pluck the day; Seize the day).
Most people are familiar with shaving, bleaching, plucking and depilatories, which chemically dissolve hair.
One day I labored in the basement kitchen plucking a hundred pigeons, burning the tougher feathers off with a hand-held torch.
Twelve men and women plucked at random off a metaphorical Clapham omnibus to hold her destiny in their collective hands. A DEAD LIBERTY
Actually, he jumped off the stool and ran towards his little brother - quickly plucking the bowl from his hands and making his way towards me.
The convention plucked him from the pastorate to head the foreign mission board.
Pointless overdecoration, GertrudeStein explains, thinking of the commas and periods she has plucked from the pages of her writings. Serendip's Exchange -
She could not pick out a single word from the speedy way the bright folk spoke, but she could guess what they meant by the way they were plucking at her harp and looking at her expectantly.
Yet her fierce, unplucked brows guarded surprisingly delicate eyelashes. RUSHING TO PARADISE
It may need to be as vegan as a freshly plucked dandelion leaf, or as bloody as a rare grilled haunch of venison.
Britain is not a nation of plucky losers. Times, Sunday Times
The story of this plucky underdog enthralled the British public. Times, Sunday Times
The wind plucked at my jacket.
‘Although large and powerful, they have not the pluck and martial spirit of Englishmen,’ one soldier remarked, just before his death.
He plucked a couple of plastic bags from the roll.
Neither play makes it to the podium, but both are better than plucky losers. Times, Sunday Times
he was Brentford's defensive star in pluckily holding out the determined Reading raids for long periods
Over two albums, the Books have plucked sampled voices from their original context and arranged them inside simple compositions for sliced-and-diced guitar, banjo, and cello.
His lashes now grow inwards and must be plucked out. The Sun
Now staff at the surgery where she is being treated are trying to find a good home for the plucky pet who has already won their hearts.
It opens with the father, Chef Chu, plucking a live chicken from his backyard coop and minutes later turning it into a steaming, mouth-watering casserole dish.
Luckily enough, a circus happens to be passing by, and one dwarf leads his elephant over to the car, where the elephant plucks the woman out with his trunk.
The island's only village is adorned with whispering palm trees, wide spacious streets and a main square crowned by a vast Mexican-style church that seems plucked from a Clint Eastwood film.
It may need to be as vegan as a freshly plucked dandelion leaf, or as bloody as a rare grilled haunch of venison.
Plucker used a glass tube filled with air and containing a positive and a negative electrode.
Cornelius plucked an apple from a basket on the low counter.
But the Buff Rock, a melody in color, shows that consonance, that consentaneousness, of flesh to feather that makes the plucked fowl to the feathered fowl what high noon is to the faint and far-off dawn -- a glow of golden legs and golden neck, mellow, melting as butter, and all the more so with every unpicked pinfeather. The Hills of Hingham
I pluck up the courage to get a little closer. Times, Sunday Times
Caged birds sometimes pluck out their breast feathers.
It is a classic tale of good and evil with an orphan hero, a plucky girl to befriend him, dastardly villains, a bit of a twist and an element of magic.
Mitchell overran the ball, had to reach back and pluck it barehanded from the sky, a guaranteed end-of-the-millennium highlight film clip. USATODAY.com - Current players pick their favorite plays
Here one of the pluckiest fights of the campaign took place. With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train
Grandfather Adams discusses a petition opposing the Erie Canal which was signed by every makebate, dawplucker and mal-content. meteorastic, adj. denoting a school of medicine that believed that all diseases came from the air. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4
He mauled the delicate sticks with his melon-sized hands, eventually plucking out two that were vaguely gold col - ored. Stalling
She looked down at her clothing and plucked at the wrinkles in her tee shirt.
Katherine Bodenbender, another member of the ensemble, says that convincing the fingers of the right hand to play that "oompah" while the right thumb is plucking out the melody takes a little practice. NPR Topics: News
WASHINGTON—The inspirational 1993 movie "Rudy" celebrates Daniel Ruettiger as a plucky underdog who overcomes long odds and his diminutive stature to earn a walk-on role on Notre Dame's legendary college-football team. SEC Tackles 'Rudy' in Fraud Case
I shall have to pluck up courage and speak to her about it.
That's why I am frequently called on to referee the All-Female Poetry Slams that are held around New England as fund-raisers for what A.J. Liebling disparagingly referred to as “the quarterlies”, the high-brow, low-revenue publications that pluck drops of verse from the torrent of poetry that is showered on them, providing them with a brief, mayfly-length existence, before they are recycled at one of the region's many picturesque do-it-yourself town dumps. The Sylvia Plath Foreclosure Sale
She had plucked all her eyebrow hairs and eyelashes out so looked ridiculous first thing in the morning. Times, Sunday Times
They also play with youth, plucked from the ranks and taught to seek and find greatness. Times, Sunday Times
She has finally plucked up the courage to face it head on. The Sun
It usually disappears - in England, as in France - with the rest of the pluck (heart, liver, lungs) into faggots, sausages and pâtés.
One MDC supporter described it like plucking the feathers off a cockerel (the cockerel is the symbol of Zanu-PF). BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
Staring with ‘Rolls and Waves of Ignorance’, Herren produces a song based on a series of orchestral swells, a smooth saxophone, and a gently plucked bass.
Immediately, everyone sprawled around in an uproar, plucking edibles and foodstuffs from cabinets and shelves.
She plucked at the loose threads of her coat.
At one stage the pianist was plucking the strings of a grand piano to emulate a sitar.
He finally plucked up courage to ask her to marry him.
Growing up in Boston, Charlie had met any number of these short, plucky, velvet-eyed ladies; they were as common in these parts as pachysandra and chrysanthemums. Three Stages of Amazement
The compère strides forward and plucks the microphone from the stand.
Plucking up his sleeve, the beldame recognized the mole; and, staggering back in her chair, shrieked: Between the Acts
British cinema loves a plucky underdog. Times, Sunday Times
The evening came to an end at last, but Kate had yet to be handed downstairs by the detested Sir Mulberry; and so skilfully were the manoeuvres of Messrs Pyke and Pluck conducted, that she and the baronet were the last of the party, and were even — without an appearance of effort or design — left at some little distance behind. Nicholas Nickleby
A solitary viola plucks a lonely, soft F sharp.
Singing of the “non-involvement” sentiment which he has experienced in the current audiences around the country, Grinderswitch singer, Dru Lumbar picked up his guitar and plucked a few crisp notes .. LYNYRD SKYNYRD – Music, Like Youth, Is Droppings its Banners « Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie
She was plucking its leaves with a tweezer, coaxing the potency into its blossoms. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
His mother sank back down onto the couch and plucked at the seat.
‘Its plectra - which pluck the strings to produce the harpsichord's sound - were replaced using black turkey quills, which they would have been made from originally,’ she said.
He plucked a stalk of dried finocchio and chewed it ruminatively, Huck Finn style. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
First came the second goal of the game, when he plucked his garryowen from the air and it was he who was left with the simple task of hitting the net from six yards.
It pulled at every populist heartstring, from the plucky woman warrior in a bright silk robe to the backdrops of peony branches and a red sunset over the Great Wall.
Since the 1950s he was a leading theorist in the study of early plucked strings and keyboard instruments. Times, Sunday Times
It was Pythagoras who was the first person to study the notes emitted by plucked strings of various lengths.
He was Brentford's defensive star in pluckily holding out the determined Reading raids for long periods.
The soldiery of the Rhinegrave have mutinied, plucked down the banners of their master, and set up an independent ensign, which they call the pennon of St. Nicholas, under which they declare that they will maintain peace with God, and war with all the world. Anne of Geierstein
As far as pluck went he had enough for two, and when the whistle blew for no-side he had not let Paget through once, and The Gold Bat
One wept, face on her knees; the other two stared haggardly at nothing, one of them plucking aimlessly at her skirt. A Crown of Swords
The image, with its un-plucked fowls, beef head ecorche, intestine-cased sausages, and blood puddings, is an essay in carnality, and it has the stink of death as well. John Seed: Fast Food Art vs. Slow Food Art
Most foreign opinion saw Britain as the aggressor, an evil Goliath against the David who was pluckily standing up to his bullying.
Cohen saw potential in a beauty parlour where women could get make-up done, have eyebrows plucked or false eyelash extensions applied.
Burn Through Bring Me My Queen City of Refuge The mix works, with Ms. Washburn's voice and plucky "clawhammer"-style banjo holding the center. This Is Not Your Usual Pop R
The prelude to Scene 2 meanwhile shows Poulenc's play with brass and woodwinds in give and take, while puckishly plucked strings and harp play with each other in the background.
After returning to terra firma the photographer said: ‘It was a lot further up that I realised and I admire the builders for their pluck in being able to work up so high.’
So it is not as if he has just been plucked from retirement. The Sun
And hours after he spoke, the Sox won the first of three elimination games in a row to win the AL Central and the team went from the doldrums to the heights of a "no one's expecting us to win" kind of plucky underdog. Jon Greenberg: Big-Game Hunter
Never on God's sweet earth has there been a more glorious union of manipulated kiddie-singing samples, frenetic bhangra pluckings, and classic crunk growl.
The young hero has an inauspicious beginning, turns it to his benefit through pluck and luck, then begins the cursus honorum of the sea: sailor, midshipman, lieutenant, captain, admiral, commemorative 30th-anniversary boxed set, remainder pile, deliquescence. At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line
She plucked at the ribbon trim on her pillowcase and didn't reply.
There’s little evidence they are interested in trawling the blogosphere to find weight loss technqiues or tales of plucky kiddies beating the odds. Why RSS will never “break through” « Squash
You have to be pretty creative and energetic -- you have to be quite kind of plucky, to a certain extent. Toby Young Can't Resist One More Prank at Soho House
Gwena, the dark girl, flashed dazzling white teeth in a vulpine grin, plucked a gittern from somewhere behind her, and began. Fiddler Fair
The devil makes work for idle hands, particularly in pre-revolutionary France where pampered privilege combined with decadence to create a bloated elite, ripe for plucking.
My eyes are small like my dad's, and my eyebrows have been plucked much thinner than natural.
One of the reasons why the debate about this year's Hugos has been so ferocious and (at times) ill-tempered is because while there are no pluckily ambitious outsiders to root for (such as Watts 'Blindsight in 2007 or McDonald's Brazyl in 2008), the list is also ignoring breakthrough genre successes such as Stephenie Meyer and Laurel K. Hamilton. MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles
He plucked the wallet from the man's grasp.
Atkins does it all, singing and strumming and plucking, while Plummer takes a seat behind the drums.
More recently, VCA had plucked the rights to a ridgetop across a broad valley from the Carrizos. Yellow Dirt
She seemed more amused as her perfectly plucked eyebrows raised, a small smile curving her mouth.
It was plucky of you to chase after the burglar.
Then her own lips lost their evenness, and she struggled long before she could pluck up courage to contemplate this new disaster.
The tag ‘a brand plucked from the burning’ clung to him ever afterwards and may well have been a powerful force in motivating him.
His photograph of two camellia brooches could just as easily have been a study of two bold flowers plucked from a garden.
All day long, rescuers in boats and helicopters plucked bedraggled flood refugees from rooftops and attics.
He will be admired as a plucky controversialist. Times, Sunday Times
You'd think the horse would bridle at being plucked. The Sun
Out of the eerie, swirling opening chords a distinctive descending tune emerges, plucked on an acoustic guitar. Times, Sunday Times
The second cocky khaki Kicky-Sack sock plucker I sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick.
They made 42nd Street - the story of a girl plucked from the chorus to the lead role in a Broadway musical - more than just a fluffy fairy tale.
Just to pluck at blind random one of the many very thorny Operation Relex circumstances from the bastardly murky and unexamined recent historical fray.
The object of the bronies' fascination is "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic," a remake of a 1980s animated TV show for preadolescent girls featuring plucky, candy-colored equines. Hey, Bro, That's My Little Pony! Guys' Interest Mounts in Girly TV Show
Backed only by acoustic guitar plucking, his songs have the ability to put the troubles of the world into soft focus. The Sun
Some are literally plucked from the forest as the bulldozers move in. Times, Sunday Times
That is just what we did, for when the needle grew red I plucked it from the fire using tweezers, and dropped it into a scrap of thick leather.
Moving without haste, Randall leaned past Jamie to pluck a ha'penny nail delicately from the reed basket. Sick Cycle Carousel
Warily she plucked a grape from the bunch and popped it in her mouth, chewing before swallowing.
Nine year old Sooz, who sets out to find a hero to slay the griffin menacing her village, is the bestest, brightest, cutest, pluckiest little girl in the whole wide world. The 2006 Nebula Award: The Novelette Shortlist
The character would try to cover it in rather pathetic 'plucky' attempts; while I on the other hand have skull kleenex, and I bet you wish you had some too – take that Laura Wilder! My haul of Halloween skull stuff and a lot of screaming
Dozens of cats and dogs, even snakes and exotic birds have been plucked to safety and taken to temporary shelters.
The large-scale operation went on for more than two hours as rescuers plucked the cocklers from the sands four miles from the coast.
On the album, the guitar picking is so precise that it demands that every painstakingly plucked note be closely listened to.
She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end.
Men I have said remove the pubes by shaving, and pluck the hair of the arm-pits, one of the vestiges of pre-Adamite man. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
‘And if I may be permitted, I would like to read a few extracts from this report,’ said Rehn, harrumphing as he plucked out some papers from the cascade.
They did all the cooking for the household, and had to prepare the food to be cooked, like plucking chickens.
Grow young players only for richer rivals to pluck the fruit when it is ripe? Times, Sunday Times
With something of the style of a Japanese buyo dance, Philippa Davies bends the pitch of her alto flute to summon the sound of a shakuhachi and Catrin Finch plucks her harp strings near the soundboard, alluding to the sound of the koto.
Jande let the silence stretch for a moment before she began plucking a soft, almost drone-like rhythm in the lower register.
To avoid suspicion she tried to pluck only hidden areas of her body. The Sun
In a second life-saving air-sea rescue, 16 Russian seamen were plucked from a 6000 ton cargo ship listing heavily in a force nine gale off the Devon coast yesterday.
While the Republicans still have failed to cultivate a national identity, still fielding posers for presidential notions, they have been able to ride a tide plucking on that anger, dissent and dispirit. B.D. Gallof: One Year Ago, No Different Than Today: A Political Observation
Walking gamely over the rubble that filled the frame, the milkman was a symbol of British pluck and determination. Times, Sunday Times
I understand that the first episode in the new season is not actually kind of a plucked from the crowd person, but it's actually a celebrity. Clinton Kelley Tells NPR Listeners 'What Not To Wear'
Since being plucked from local football on his native Merseyside, Townson has made remarkable strides in the past 12 months and has been capped by England at under-17 level.
Entire packs of grey wolves have also been plucked from the Canadian outback and released in Yellowstone Park.
It is one of those foreign feathers, like intimism, intimity, femininity, distinction and distinguished (the last pair now banalities if anything was ever banal; so do extremes meet), in which writers of literary criticism love to parade, and which ordinary persons should do their best to pluck from them, protesting when there is a chance, and at all times refusing the compliment of imitation. Formations.
One hundred and six pounds stretched over five feet and six inches, all of it tanning-bed basted, toned, plucked, waxed, moisturized, deodorized, perfumed, perfect. The Half Life
His clothes were brown and gray and russet, and his hands were pink like the flesh of some rabbit a hawk had just plucked up.

How To Use Pluck In A Sentence

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