Sentence examples for awards plucking from inspiring English sources
But elsewhere, we're forced to go out on a limb: tipping Master and Commander for a consolation gaggle of technical awards, plucking The Barbarian Invasions out from an unknown and unseen set of best foreign film contenders, and picking Sean Penn for best actor when a sizeable part of us still screams that it's going to be Bill Murray.
Go to war In answer to Edwin Starr's chorus, war is, in fact, good for plucking awards from the clutches of the Academy's voters, as nearly half (41) of the 83 Best Picture winners will testify.
He's got a point; awards juries pluck books and authors from obscurity all the time.
When you're done with trick and treaters calling for the night, consider plucking the wreath off the door and awarding it to your last caller of the night!
Ironically, the bad sex awards were originally conceived, in 1993, to celebrate good sex, before the editor, Auberon Waugh, was advised by co-founder, Rhoda Koenig, that this might be "less interesting" than plucking out the clichéd and the corny.
Wife: *starts plucking my eyebrows*.
Stop plucking and waxing.
