Sentence examples for been able to pluck from inspiring English sources

In the plan's most basic form, ABC would have been able to pluck a game from the CBS and Fox Sunday afternoon schedules.

Zhou has not been able to pluck up the courage to tell his son, nor the family's elder relatives, the truth about his wife's predicament.

You've got to be able to pluck the goose; you don't want to kill it".

You won't get enough basil for pesto, but you will be able to pluck leaves or sprigs.

For one thing, the bosses of renewable-energy start-ups need to understand enough about the science to be able to pluck scientists from obscurity.

The magical promise of bells is that we might be able to pluck the past from the very airwaves around us.

Users, Mr. Kundra said, will be able to pluck the source data from the Web site and do their own analyses.

For example, the military might have radio spectrum it uses for communicating at a bombing test range, but when that test range is not in use, a smartphone would be able to pluck a signal from that spectrum.

In an interview with The New York Times in 1988, Dr. Ruddle spoke enthusiastically of one of the great virtues of being able to pluck genes from one creature and deposit them into another: efficiency.

At a quarter past six, with two overs of the game remaining, Gooch called off his quest for victory and Tendulkar was able to pluck off his helmet and walk from the field.

That he is able to pluck that feeling out of the darkness of those Miami nights makes him a classically heroic figure: he knows his limitations, he knows that life is tragic, but he is still willing to dream.