plucked

How To Use plucked In A Sentence

• 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
• The convention plucked him from the pastorate to head the foreign mission board.
• 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
• She was plucked from obscurity to instant stardom.
• 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.
• ‘We just plucked our bags from the hold of the aircraft, and drove off,’ he says.
• 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
• Her eyebrows were plucked flat, canopying small, olive drab, porcine eyes rimmed with red. Over the Edge