Sentence examples for instead of plucking from inspiring English sources

Another curious passage involves strumming the upper string instruments like guitars instead of plucking them.

Instead of plucking his cabinet members from the various factions, he chose outsiders and ignored the largest faction.

"But instead of plucking a guitar, I pluck the Internet," Dr. Chafe said -- by sending pulses down a network path.

The hugely popular Guitar Hero game, in which you press buttons on a toy guitar instead of plucking strings, has already blurred the boundaries between the two "disciplines".

(His playing style is beyond unorthodox: instead of plucking out bass lines, he strums the strings, way up by the fret board).

● PolyTune (TC Electronics, £5.99) Polyphonic guitar tuning allows you to tune all your guitar strings at once, instead of plucking one at a time.

Leftover ham sandwiches! 2) Duck: Duck is a lot like turkey, really: a bird that seems like something that might've been hunted in the wild instead of plucked from a pen in some nightmarish macro-farm.

The indenoquinoline study showed that hair follicles in skin snips, used instead of plucked hair bulbs in athymic nude mice, responded similarly to the tumor, suggesting that plucked hair bulbs may be an appropriate surrogate tissue [ 22].

This is garlic that, instead of being plucked young and sold as shoots called green garlic, is allowed to mature and form large heads.

Corky now goes by her nickname instead of by Charlotte; plucking her eyebrows and being pregnant are two of her new self-improvement plans, along with taking driving lessons.

In this case Eastwood has eschewed celebrity casting, instead plucking three of his four Jersey Boys from the stage show (the fourth, Vincent Piazza, who plays guitarist Tommy DeVito, plays Lucky Luciano on Boardwalk Empire).