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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121. She plucked the green scarf from the throat of her raincoat, spread it on top of the heap of boulders.
122. Zhu's tough talk on corruption plucked a chord among the delegates.
123. Plucked straight from the brine, the flavour of the olives can be overpowered by the salt.
124. One of them had brought a lute-like instrument out of which he plucked some bittersweet notes.
125. So I plucked up my courage and tapped gently on the door.
126. The big producers do not hang turkeys - which inevitably affects the flavour - because they are plucked and cleaned by machine.
127. Then the odd whitewashed marshland cottage stands strangely palpable, as if it could be plucked from the scene and held for ever.
128. We were served trout plucked from the river specially for us, under an awning on a wooden balcony overhanging the water.
129. In fact, they seemed very much like characters plucked out of a novel.
130. Then the riots blazed and he was plucked from barracks, given a month's emergency training and sent into the streets.
131. The tension in Agnes's head stretched out thin and made a noise like a plucked string.
132. Mary O'Callaghan was plucked to safety by firefighters from her first-floor flat on the High Street on Saturday morning.
133. On three occasions he had plucked up the courage to call her, but had never had a reply.
134. Dinah plucked out her handkerchief again,[http://sentencedict.com/plucked.html] dabbed at her eyes and cleared her nose.
135. After pulling himself to a higher spot, he called again, got through and was plucked from the mountain.
136. Try comparing a plucked note on a violin and on a mandolin and you will certainly notice the difference.
137. The heavily plucked eyebrows and the full mouth, thickly and glossily lipsticked, she found a little distasteful.
138. Her lower lip twitched as though plucked by an invisible finger.
139. She plucked the document deftly from his fingers.
140. He plucked the strings of his mandolin.
141. Finally(sentencedict.com), the strings are plucked with a plectrum.
142. She plucked it out with a pair of tweezers.
143. A cube-shaped rock plucked out of his sifters turned out to be a 4.38-carat, tea-colored diamond.
144. Mrs. Davenport, who was there, plucked Mary by the gown.
145. They walked right up to the porticoed entrance and started to open the oak door. Someone inside, however, plucked it open first.
146. So this is Virgil: "When I was fain to sing of kings and battles, the Cynthian god" -that's Phoebus Apollo -- "plucked my ear and warned me."
147. Ho was also a child in Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and Hong Kong Youth Chinese Plucked String Orchestra members, is now performing in the orchestra members.
148. Their spindly, delicate roots seem just plucked from the earth.
149. Tone poems are a general name for poems set to music and played on plucked instruments.
150. He had plucked a blue floweret, and was twiddling it against the sky.