Sentence examples for pluck from from inspiring English sources

How are we to pluck, from amid the thorns of peril, the rose of security?

The poor will pluck from her figure whatever they can recycle and sell.

Also I have several gray hairs, which I secretly pluck from my temples while sitting in parked cars outside McDonald's.

After all this, though, "let us celebrate whatever scraps the muse, that naked child, / can pluck from the still-smoldering dumps".

Southern Africa, like the rest of the continent, still depends heavily on selling what it can dig out of the ground or pluck from the trees.

"Pickers" wield pistols that guide them on the shortest path through the jumble, measure their progress and log in the items they pluck from the shelves.

Besides, his cabinet contains no thorn such as Mrs Thatcher's "wets" or John Major's "bastards"—that he longs to pluck from his flesh.

In pluck-from-the-air fashion, this entry is figured out by subtracting a company's book value from its stock capitalization.

Plucked from a junk shop.

Music is plucked from DNA.

Muhammad Daud, plucked from the National Security Council.