Sentence examples for first plucked from inspiring English sources

You are the one who first plucked the fruit of the forbidden tree". Adam, in this interpretation, was obviously just a bumbler and a dupe.

On the first and most striking of these pieces, which come numbered like classical variations, Mr. Turner conjugates a four-note phrase while Mr. Grenadier offers a counterline, first plucked and then bowed.

"Why shouldn't you be the best you can be?" Zach asks Cassie (Charlotte d'Amboise), his former lover whom he first plucked from a chorus at the age of twenty-two.

It was only on the penultimate day that we first plucked up the courage to tackle the (appropriately named) "Wall" – a steep black run with some fantastic moguls to challenge us.

From the opening second of this clip you see the extraordinary vividness with which he translates the sounds of his accompanying guitar into physical shape and force, gesturing softly to the first plucked note, then snapping with steel-trap precision into the ferocious diagonal that ricochets across each repeating note.

The earliest tuneable instrument, the stringed harp, was first plucked in modern-day Iraq in around 4,500BC. 26.

The cimbalom is a variety of zither or dulcimer, a pretty little tablelike instrument, and Mr. Balogh put it through its paces, first plucking its strings, then striking them with various sets of hammers to present a whole range of sound colors in his dazzling opening piece by an 18th-century cimbalom player named Pal Tendi.

Working their way up the organizational chain, federal prosecutors will first pluck "low-hanging fruit" by confronting "Virgil," Carrie Mathison's off-the-books surveillance handyman.

James Russell Lowell, who had privately called Griswold "an ass and, what's more, a knave", composed a verse on Griswold's temperament in his satirical A Fable for Critics: But stay, here comes Tityrus Griswold, and leads on The flocks whom he first plucks alive, and then feeds on— A loud-cackling swarm, in whose feathers warm dressed, He goes for as perfect a — swan as the rest.

That day in March, as he entered the Kariokor market, just north of the city center, he shook hands with three men who were watching as a fourth plucked a chicken over a plastic basin, and gave them flyers.

Thurston's try was scored in bizarre circumstances with the Test five-eighth plucking the ball from between the legs of David Mead after the Titan had coughed it up while being driven towards his own touchline.