Sentence examples for pluck up to from inspiring English sources

Still, it tickled my frugal bones to know that with my one-day fishing license (7.35 dollars), I could pluck up to 15 oysters with minimal effort, and the smidgen of history I'd picked up reminded me of a summer camp field trip.

For every dollar of retail revenue it loses, BellSouth should pluck up to 85 cents of wholesale business from competitors.

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

If local people have to pluck up courage to walk through the door, then we have been doing something very wrong indeed for too long.

"It took him three weeks to pluck up courage to take me out.

(OK, this last distressing event took place some months ago now, but it's taken me this long to pluck up the courage to face up to it in writing).

I hope you are well and I have really enjoyed your diary - you are an inspiration to anyone trying to pluck up the courage to have a go.

It may be hard to pluck up the courage to go and talk to a certain person or say something aloud in class.

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.

It took me hours to pluck up the courage to pick up the phone and call the people I needed to speak to for my other job.

Hawthorn & Child's publisher, Philip Gwyn Jones at Granta, "had to pluck up the courage to acquire it" as he "had concerns about how hard it would be to sell".