Sentence examples for i'd pluck from inspiring English sources

"Tell me," she giggled, "what do they say?" I mentioned some examples: one heavy-breathing geek says: "I'd pluck her G-string", another notes her "fantastic bum", and a third issues a timed alert: "1.06 and they're jiggling".

No 3 is that I wish I'd plucked up the courage to ask the lovely Caroline Martin for a date.

Yet when, after years of frustration, I'd plucked up the courage to cool things, I was left with a perverse feeling of guilt and remorse, over all the good that is beginning to slip away too.

"I would pluck the chicken.

It was too rocky and I was afraid that I would pluck her eye out.

Occasionally I would pluck up the courage to ask an adult if I could go somewhere else to read.

If I woke up as a 15-year-old, I like to think I would pluck my eyebrows to nothing and stake my claim on a flaccid life, a train ticket, a rousing speech.

But I thought I would pluck out the following passage, which is an aside in the essay but a suggestive one, I think, in terms of understanding both Bottum's personal motivations in writing this piece and some of the larger issues in play as well.

Tut, were it further off, he'd pluck it down!

Bound in red cloth with retro lettering and marbled endpapers, "The Dangerous Book" is designed to look like something you'd pluck from a used bookstall.

Without looking up from grooming herself, she'd pluck one from the air and tickle the squealing bundle on the tummy mercilessly before letting it go.