Sentence examples for pluck up a from inspiring English sources

I had to pluck up a lot of courage to go down that route.

However, the coincidence of several deals happening at once may make other bosses pluck up the courage to make a move.

Struggling to afford food Marystella can pluck up to 20 kilos of tea leaves in a day.

He plucks up a woman, Lisa Viola, and together they perform a duet that looks like something happening after death.

In one play (I can still see it) in the 1964 World Series, he scampered over and plucked up a hard-hit ball struck by Joe Pepitone that had nailed him on the hip and caromed halfway to third base; Gibson leaped and turned one hundred and eighty degrees in midair and made an overhead throw to first — a basketball one-handed fall-away jumper — that nipped Pepitone at the bag.

The wicked two-pronged tip of the hard-cheese knife plucks up a chunk of cheddar.

"He's maybe plucked up a little bit of courage and he's opened his mouth" said Frampton.

Here the organiser is simply plucked up, a sort of biological stowaway, by a surgical instrument used for some other purpose and deposited elsewhere.

"Those are our kids!" says Karen Beck, plucking up a black-and-white photo of her smiling family with Xs marking out their faces.

Tucker walked over to one of her tables heavy with printed words and plucked up a new book that, she said, has just begun to sell well.

Finally a teacher plucked up courage and signed a waiver.