Sentence examples for is plucked before from inspiring English sources

Prey is plucked before consumption.

Eighty-eight players in the 1996 draft were plucked before Terrell Owens, including receivers Keyshawn Johnson, Terry Glenn, Eric Moulds, Marvin Harrison and Amani Toomer.

N.C.A.A. BAD BOYS In a draft littered with 6-foot-and-under point guards, Michigan's 6-6 freshman Jamal Crawford may be plucked before Michigan State's Mateen Cleaves.

With EEG, however, the brain's electrical activity is measured through electrodes placed on the scalp, creators can now bypass a critical step in the creative process: all you have to do is "think" an idea into being, and even before a string is plucked or a stroke is painted, your creativity can be measured and observed. .

Music is plucked from DNA.

Food is plucked with the lips.

Fourteen survivors were plucked from lifeboats before dawn amid 18ft waves.

Next to it were fresh green snow pea leaves that looked like they had been plucked off the vine minutes before, water spinach, yellow chives, Chinese chives and flowering chives.

The child was swept away before being plucked from the chilly waters near 59th Street by emergency responders.

Welshman Sampson was head coach of Women's Super League side Bristol Academy before being plucked for the England job, which Hope Powell held for 15 years until being sacked after Euro 2013.

James Hogan, a bullish Australian who used to be chief operating officer at BMI (a British airline now owned by Lufthansa), ran Gulf Air for four years before being plucked by Abu Dhabi's government in 2006 to oversee the expansion of Etihad.Although in many ways Mr Hogan is following the model established by Emirates, there are differences.