Sentence examples for getting plucked from inspiring English sources

"Some aspiring writers think it will be easy, but your chances of success are as slim as getting plucked from an agent's slush pile.

Ogilvy in Toronto developed "Dove Evolution," a one-minute clip of a conventionally attractive woman getting plucked, painted and digitally altered until she becomes the packaged face staring down from a billboard.

Carmen Chang knows the ins and outs of startups in China as well as anyone, having headed up Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's corporate and securities practice in China before getting plucked out of the global law firm by venture heavyweight New Enterprise Associates, whose China practice she has led for the last five years.

My eyes … my eyes got plucked out.

Every year somebody got plucked out.

Her imagistic imagination is ribald and silly here: a woman in feathers gets plucked.

Once, she got plucked from the line for an eligibility interview.

"This was an angel who got plucked off the face of the earth," he said.

We were just three girls who got plucked from an estate, we didn't go to stage school.

A chosen few get plucked from the farm for duty at the spa, where I opted for the 45-minute Snail Spa Celebrity Course.

Then Fish [Laurence Fishburne] got plucked out, and Howard Rollins, and then I was doing Mother Courage and all of a sudden Morgan Freeman was gone.