Sentence examples for managed to pluck from inspiring English sources

This year's Oscar errors extend to the smallest end of the scale: in both the live action and animated short film categories, voters managed to pluck the least exciting option.

After about 20 minutes of grooming, and fortunately no turbulence, which could have caused some major problems, I managed to pluck, tweeze and arch her brows into something quite nice.

"Shiller has managed to pluck an emotional chord," said James Grant, publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, himself a Wall Street pessimist whose fame has waned as stock prices have kept rising.

The book which tracks one, slightly eccentric, family's plight in the face of a third world war has been close to my heart for a long time and I haven't yet managed to pluck up the courage to see it as I love the text version so much.

I am particularly interested in researching the trading and mutual cultural influences between the Roman and the Chinese worlds in the 1st to 4th centuries A.D.; however, I have never quite managed to pluck up the necessary courage to pursue this ambition.

I've met Foals twice since then but have never managed to pluck up the courage to tell them quite what they mean to me.

But will Collier manage to pluck another star?

How Latch manages to pluck all these variously tensed threads will be interesting to watch.

Sedaris, like her famous brother, David, manage to pluck the most unusual things from their eclectic imagination and bring them to life in the most inventive way.

If you can manage to pluck a couple of pieces of meat and vegetables out of the broth to eat on their own, dip them into the "tiger sauce," a sweet and spicy tamarind condiment with plenty of heat.

And even when you do manage to pluck it out of your mind, it seems to have shifted something in your relationship that continues to drain you of life's joie de vivre.