Similar words: pluck, plucky, pluck up, tucked, luck, lucky, in luck, luck out. Meaning: [plʌkt] adj. 1. of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum 2. having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl.
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61. Unafraid, he plucked the heart and made his exit.
62. Wetting her fingertips, Vron plucked at the pages.
63. But a wave had plucked away the bucket, leaving only the handle attached to its rope.
64. She caught a bird, plucked and cooked it, fed the meat to him in slivers.
65. Cornelius plucked an apple from a basket on the low counter.
66. His photograph of two camellia brooches could just as easily have been a study of two bold flowers plucked from a garden.
67. He felt as though he had been plucked from the face of a cliff and put down on sure ground.
68. They are the cache that geologists seek, and must be carefully plucked from the ocean bed.
69. It had plucked Mariana from the pillion seat, skittering her against the current like a flat stone skipped across a pond.
70. Some were plucked from the seas more than two centuries ago and dunked in ship's rum to keep them from rotting.
71. Soundposts are an important feature of bowed instruments but are unsuitable for plucked instruments and will deaden the sound of a dulcimer.
72. The scalding flood swamped hundreds of homes and many people were plucked to safety by helicopter.
73. A mind can not be prevented from dreaming, it can only be plucked when it produces fruit.
74. Benjamin then dug his hand into the empty manger and plucked out the remains of the horse's feed.
75. He was immediately plucked off and we plunged downwards,[sentencedict.com] drowning in a tidal wave of powder snow.
76. With an oath he struggled up, plucked the arrow from the crutch and stumbled off among the trees.
77. Eventually I plucked up courage and booked a ticket to Amsterdam with the sole purpose of getting laid.
78. The Dratslingers and their troupe plucked these impulses from the ether, made them coagulate, gave them form.
79. One is not to eat fruits that have been plucked; one is to wait for the fruits to fall.
80. He plucked his hat from his head and extracted a key from the hatband.
81. The Keeper of the Shrine of Asuryan plucked out his eyes but even this did not stop the terrible visions.
82. Conchis plucked the muslin away from one of the plates with the quick aplomb of a conjurer.
83. They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola.
84. Plucked from the broken stalks that Mr Garner could not doubt was the fault of the raccoon.
85. Crucial intercepts are the rare electronic nuggets plucked from masses of ore dug by rank-and-file miners.
86. The New Brighton-based rescue team plucked five people from the water when the incident happened near Seacombe.
87. A year later[sentencedict.com], I plucked up my courage and became pregnant once more.
88. When the Guardian arrived half an hour later, she plucked it from the letter-box with impatient hands.
89. He soon fell asleep, but woke with a start when his grandmother plucked out a hair.
90. Then the wind rose again and plucked his top hat off his head and sent it bowling among the stones.