Sentence examples for been plucked from inspiring English sources

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been plucked

verb

To pull something sharply; to pull something out

  • She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.

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All their low-hanging fruit has long been plucked.

So far 160,000 have been plucked from the sea.

The sum has not been plucked out of thin air.

Its fuse has by no means been plucked.

Breaded grouper might have been plucked from a supermarket freezer.

So why has this one been plucked out of obscurity?

Her coarse black hair had been plucked from a horse's mane and divided into braids.

He hadn't been plucked and the transponder was still on him.

The courage to undergo surgery had been plucked up only after years of counselling.

Some of these basket items have been plucked apart in Eurostat's explainer.

Had there been, Andrew would almost certainly not have been plucked from university.

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