Sentence examples for in plucking from inspiring English sources

Tsar Vyslav ordered his three sons to capture the bird, but only Ivan, the youngest, succeeded in plucking a feather from her tail as she flew away.

Her greatest influence remained in plucking new books from the pile, often lifting a little-known author like Jacquelyn Mitchard or Anita Shreve to household-name status.

Be on your guard for lily beetle, which can ravage this fritillaria - I delight in plucking these devils from the foliage and exuding their orange blood!

A similar Search box appears at the top of every desktop (Explorer) window, for ease in plucking some document out of that more limited haystack.

By building the instrument with its keyboard at one side or the other of the front of the rectangular case, different tone colours can be obtained because of the change in plucking point of the string.

I could even claim to have foraged as an adult, if you count a mild interest in plucking berries from the caper bushes that cling to the walls of an old hill town near the farmhouse in Umbria where my husband and I go, in the summertime, to write.

And that's when a frigate bird swooped in, plucked them, one by one, from the silver waves, and ate them for breakfast.

As previously observed with lymphocytes, the frequency of γ-H2AX residual foci in plucked hairs was dose dependent (Fig. 3E).

A recent study showed the feasibility of using γ-H2AX as a marker for DNA damage in plucked hairs from patients undergoing chemotherapy [26].

We show that the detection of γ-H2AX in plucked hairs can be used to monitor TBI for several days after exposure.

An increase in γH2AX foci was found in plucked eyebrow hair follicles 6 hours after olaparib treatment, compared with baseline.