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Sentence Examples 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. On this street, Eureka volunteer firefighters' rescue boats later would pluck at least 20 people to safety, many from their rooftops. He let his fingernails grow long, the better to pluck his new classical guitar. I watched her fingers pluck the strings gracefully, feeling her courage getting greater with the song. Wendy couldn't help but admire the pluck and ingenuity these youngsters showed. While she hints at the demons in Maya's past, she invests little intelligence or pluck in the character. But their leaders were full of admiration for their pluck and cheerful acceptance of the conditions. For example, this time last year you highlighted the sheer day-to-day pluck and dedication of young carers in the borough. Bob used plenty of pluck and hard work to get started, and then he offered other businesses the chance to get started too. Admiring her pluck and determination Clint reluctantly takes her on and a fascinating relationship of substitute father and daughter emerges. Of course, not everyone has the pluck to become an entrepreneur, and most businesses fail before they get off the starting block. Put the pluck into cold salted water, boil, then skim and simmer for 1 hour. Reaching out he grasped the berry noticing it's plumpness, he tried his best to pluck it. Don Quixote, covered with shame and out of countenance, ran to pluck the plume from his poor jade's tail, while Sancho did the same for Dapple. She has to pluck up the courage to perform them at a songwriter's showcase if she is to have any hope at all of making it. This week he also intends to pluck up the courage to visit his home, which is fenced off for safety reasons. Exhausted helicopter crews scrambled to pluck desperate victims from trees, rooftops and electricity pylons. With the help of a trusty pair of tweezers, pluck away at the hairs you want to eliminate. It's easy, carefree and you don't have to have three shots to pluck up your courage to talk to someone. I hope you are able to pluck up your courage, so that you can do what has to be done. Show More Sentences Occasionally they even pluck a walrus, beluga whale, or narwhal from the watery depths below the pack ice. When women pluck up the courage to leave a violent or abusive relationship, they often find their abuser turns to the law, Tagg explained. On the modern harp, players pluck the strings near the middle with the pads of their fingers. The very nature of God-given expression makes room for people to hum, pluck, and jive while giving concerns over society's woes. His legs were deeply lacerated, but his life was saved when a stranger managed to pluck him from the waters. A thick gush of guitar and xylophonic pluck, the vocals are pushed up front for the first time. I approached the fridge yesterday morning at breakfast with my arm aloft to pluck the box of choice from the cereal Manhattan above. What other county final could pluck a sitting head of government from its archives and get him to write an appreciation from the heart? She focused intently at it and as she watched, Doremi could see the figure inside begin to move and pluck a melody on the strings of the lute. Most people nowadays do not wring chickens' necks, pluck them, and cook them for dinner, or butcher their own pigs, or gut their own fish. They pluck out thick slices of tandoori chicken seared over flaming coals, dip them in mint chutney and stuff them into the mouth with passion. Surely all these people didn't just pluck these things out of thin air and just put them down on paper! Workers spray rose bushes, harvest stems, strip them of thorns and pluck the blemished petals. It always helps to have someone point out where you've written gibberish and pluck out the spelling mistakes. If you have strays within your bikini line, you can pluck them with tweezers or trim them very carefully with scissors. Numerous methods are used for epilation, from tweezers to devices that pluck several hairs at once. I despise how easily these extremists strive to pluck the mote out of someone else's eye while leaving the well-rooted tree that's in their own. Their trunk is employed to pull branches off trees, uproot grass, pluck fruit, and to place food in their mouths. I'd unpeg some jeans, a couple of socks, pluck off some undies, then shuffle back inside. Obliviously, he wasn't expecting that, and was so surprised that he let go of me, and I was able to pluck the knife from his nerveless fingers. Show More Sentences He taught him how to hear and see the currents of magic flowing between all things and how to pluck them like the strings of a vielle. Sibyl watched as Lady Plymouth's private troubadour began to instinctively pluck strings of the viol. He bunted me with his huge head and then tried to pluck the buttons off my shirt. She then proceeded to pluck Lucky from the puddle of mud and carry her into the barn. So steadfast is Archer, that the West Indian is heard praising our hero's pluck and courage ever after. It's not all brooding insolence though, there are glorious, uplifting love songs that pluck playfully at your heartstrings. Ten minutes into darkness I felt a gentle pluck on the line, and striking, I connected with a powerful fish. The mechanism that he winds with the handle to pluck the strings makes more noise than the actual musical notes of the strings themselves. The 42-page comic can be read in a single sitting, though it'll take several sweeps to pluck out the myriad subtexts and visual motifs. City pundits, keen to get you to trade more, will no doubt continue to pluck short-term price targets and price support levels out of thin air. Pterodactyls could pluck swimsuited toddlers from the shoreline and folks would go right on fishing. It's not like you can walk into your backyard and pluck a pina colada off the cocktail tree. Pearl can also pluck vivid pictures out of the past of the polio epidemic, or infantile paralysis epidemic, as it was called in her day. I want to smell a new fragrance, pluck a cherry tomato, pinch a mint leaf, experience the significance of life with each step. Another project is to find out why double-crested cormorants tend to pluck catfish fingerlings out of some ponds but not others. I watched the fishmongers pluck the fish from the tank, and take a knife to them. Wherever you look, fish are jumping out of the placid water, landing with audible plips and plops, while ospreys swoop down to pluck up dinner. They also want cheap labour to cut the sugar cane, pluck the chickens, pick the oranges, mow the lawns and make the beds. Teen magazines are full of articles on how to lose weight, get the right hair highlights, pluck eyebrows effectively, and so on. As it singes, it seals the ends of the hair so it doesn't grow back as quickly as when you wax or pluck it. Show More Sentences He held a pair of tweezers in his hand, debating whether or not to pluck away the three stray hairs between his eyebrows. Wash the pluck and put in a pan of boiling water and boil for 1 hour. Just to pluck at blind random one of the many very thorny Operation Relex circumstances from the bastardly murky and unexamined recent historical fray. Perrin performed heroics to pluck it away from the top corner. This is ladanum gum, which the goatherds pluck from their charges. This is something that I can't get my head around, as I need to have the water around tepid tea temps before I can pluck up the courage to dip my toe in. His youth, pluck and decisiveness were one of the major assets which made him different from the Communists whose radical slogans had never been translated into real actions. President Reagan is showing an awful lot of pluck given this tragedy. At 73 June sings those lyrics with the same determined pluck as she did at 9, revealing an artist whose hopefulness proved as solid and indefatigable as her voice. While fast food restaurants require their workers to have a high school diploma, street vendors only need some cash and a bit of pluck to start up their business. You have to pluck up your courage to express ideas that are not majority opinion, or to face the hostility or ridicule that may accompany departing from social norms. His specialties are attracting the sympathy of the jury for his physical pluck and amusing it with his lively wit. They were out at the crab-huts, awaiting the moment the crustacea shed their shells, to pluck them from watery trays and packed off to dinner-tables in New York and London. I'm guessing the card holder is so that you can maintain professionalism in the office by having a misogynist doodad to pluck your business cards from. Our family in general isn't very close, so there's nothing I can really do about that, and I'm still waiting for the right lady to pluck me out of my obscurity. It is of vital importance to pluck one's eyebrows regularly. In the movie, a young black man, through his pluck and determination, becomes a Canadian Mountie and buys a large ranch that earns him great financial success. The easiest thing would be to pluck another exiled oligarch out of the sin bin. Really need to pluck or get her eyebrows waxed or something. A coupler allows the lower manual to pluck all three registers. Show More Sentences She's bringing my tweezers so I can pluck my eyebrows on the way there. Rescuers managed to pluck the Dutch man from the stricken boat. As a child back in the Little Town I could walk unerringly to the history section of the local library and pluck numerous volumes I'd read about World War II off the shelf. When it comes to the players who are playing, you just pluck the low-hanging fruit. As you finish reading this book, and you put it down, I urge you to pluck up your courage and tell me all you think about it, straight to my face. Maintaining tight eye contact, the butlers pluck out audience members for a gripping, melancholic dance. The eagles would seek out the nest sites by watching the parent pipits bringing in food before swooping down to pluck the wee fledglings out. Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers to line the nest, but feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different. Attempt to pluck up Alison aborted as deadly sea snake surfaces beside her. I see him stand, jointlessly unfolding, pull from the holster on his hip the shingle knife, as easy as you'd pluck the fork beside your plate. The sea otter may pluck snails and other organisms from kelp and dig deep into underwater mud for clams. The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. The bird has been dubbed Clucky by rescuers who used a net to pluck it to safety from the bin at Little Beckford, Worcs. There are certain Quelea birds that have proved to be quite the opponents of progress as they pluck the rice once the area has been flooded. The human urge to pluck a string and make music goes back many millennia. Police threw a life buoy to the woman before the fireboat arrived to pluck her to safety. One of Fox's first maneuvers is to pluck the drop cloth off a chair in the new office of Bobby Gould. I can't pluck up courage to go and I don't have the nervous energy to stay. Most often consisting of a budset pluck, a frost tea has the clarity and freshness of a white tea, with the richness and lingering finish of a finely crafted black tea. He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck. Show More Sentences Money isn't everything in this world. Youth and love and pluck are the main things. Hang it, what if you do get into debt occasionally? You've got a pretty oofy father-in-law. It was going to take muscle to pluck Miss Agnes out of the canal. Yet since I see you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you. Macropodids may take small berries or seedheads entirely into the mouth, grip the stalk, and pluck off the seedhead against the upper or lower incisors. Every ten minutes they consulted together as to who could pluck up the courage to ask some passer-by the time. The passers-by were all back street people. Pluck any hairs outside this line using tweezers with slanted ends, and always use a magnifying mirror so you don't pinch the skin, or miss any errant hairs. Pluck has taken pleasure in interacting with his Filipino co-workers, citing that he looks forward to eating lunch with his new friends every day. Numerous readers can be downloaded from the Internet, including AmphetaDesk, Bloglines, FeedReader, RssReader and Pluck. Pluck a pebble from a mountain and pretend the mountain is gone. Examples from Classical Literature They feared he had overrated his ability, but were ready to applaud his pluck. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that dandyism is antagonistic to pluck. But I learned that though I am a carnivore yet I have not the pluck to be a vulture. He is too chicken-hearted for that, or for anything else that requires pluck. Both Adah and Maria belong to that old-school class of proper feminine folk who never pick but always pluck flowers. No Irish villager has the pluck to say, I will do this or that because it is the best thing to do. So valuable have these been considered that it has been a practice to pluck the live geese each year before they molted. The child who has leave to pluck the apple often leaves it untouched, undesired, on the tree. Thanks to their clannishness and pluck, they appear to be tolerably immune from attack. Nothing would be done with him, as the executive had only pluck enough to hang two poor devils such as Wirtz and Mrs. Surratt. The growth should not be cut through, as it is wiser to pluck it from its attachment by a quick movement of avulsion. Rick saw him lift a pirate bodily, pluck the barong from his hand, and throw him against two other pirates. He used it on Tanaka every time he stopped by the wayside to pluck a flower for him. Two of my men, two corporals, are getting Divisional cards of merit for their work and pluck in the strafe the other day. His senses were so straitly tied to his brains that to pluck at one was to thrill the other. To battle with the world, instead of battening in luxury, is the joy of life, while there is any pluck and pith. And mother, find three berries red And pluck them from the stalk, And burn them at the first cockcrow That my spirit may not walk. Wilcox had eschewed those decorative schemes that wince, and relent, and refrain, and achieve beauty by sacrificing comfort and pluck. It war that GeV the pluck I felt when descendin' fro' the neest. Pluck's pluck, yo' see, whether yo're for a mon or agen him. Show More Sentences On this occasion he strolled away from his companion to pluck a sprig of almond blossom, which he carefully arranged in his buttonhole. Why should you aspire to pluck the flower which has grown up amongst us? Nor will we pluck the pretty flowers, That grow about the beds and Bowers. Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover, it's more selfish anyhow. Hathi had been plucking off the roofs of the huts as you pluck water-lilies, and a rebounding beam had pricked him. Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out of the crannies.Tennyson. She bent and kissed the damask rose, which was too beautiful to pluck. How could she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? All of a sudden, his patience, endurance, pluck seemed to give out. Marie stooped to pluck a flower, and slipped behind the shrub. John is worshiped pretty nigh, since his pluck with that smallpox man. In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side. For pluck in public works South Australia has a character of her own. Certain agents I found to have the power to shake and pluck back that fleshly vestment, even as a wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion. Law was a sort of cock-fight, in which it was the business of injured honesty to get a game bird with the best pluck and the strongest spurs. Tain't ev'ry man, Miss Carr, ez hev got the pluck to pledge not only what he's got, but what he reckons to git. Don't squeeze me so hard, westenra, I shall need all my pluck. And they pluck men at Cambridge for not getting up their Paley! Well, then, let me make the offer for you, that's all, if you haven't the pluck to do it yourself. Cut off my arm and pluck out my eye, so that the other may be better. Show More Sentences Rima was not there to pluck the rage from my heart and save his evil life. Then you have to do the best you can, and prove the pluck that is in you. With Scotch patience and pluck he resolved to live down his reputation and work his way into the legal field yet. The Sheriff was will to pluck a prodigal with the next man, and he was moreover glad to have a guest who promised to enliven the feast. But for all that, the pluck and tenacity of Ulstermen are undeniable. Look at the opportunities here for a man of knowledge, brains, pluck, and enterprise to sail in and grow up with the country. If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still. Pokey unknowns, amazed to find how intimately they know Veneering, pluck up spirit, fold their arms, and begin to contradict him before breakfast. And in your garden the man must never pluck the last of your posies. Delight is to him, who gives no quarter in the truth, and kills, burns, and destroys all sin though he pluck it out from under the robes of Senators and Judges. And she was sent into the kitchen, and made to fetch wood and water, to blow the fire, pluck the poultry, pick the herbs, sift the ashes, and do all the dirty work. Those of us who shilly-shally and fear the cost of doing what is right can draw strength from the thought that 'Out of this Nettle, Danger, we pluck this flower, Safety. The specially coated, extra-low dispersion lenses provide razor-sharp resolution and true-tolife color fidelity to help you pluck game from brushy environments. Now after I had thwarted him in this matter of the sending of an impi to pluck the Lily from the gardens of the Halakazi, Dingaan learned to hate me. Tom begged her to pluck up hope again, and she said she could not. Pluck up your courage, and we'll let Townleys and MacNairs whistle their mouldy feuds down the wind while we sail southward in The Fair Lady. Pluck and sportsmanship is always the criterion, not merely victory. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of pluck? Words that rhyme with pluck What is the past tense of pluck? What is the plural of pluck? What is the adverb for pluck? What is the adjective for pluck? What is the noun for pluck? Translations for pluck Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words PLU pls ploys ployed ploy plowshares plucked plucker pluckiest pluckily pluckiness plucking 5-letter Words Starting With p pl plu pluc