Sentence examples for plucked back from inspiring English sources

We start in the early nineteen-sixties, but it's hard to gauge any changes in fashion, given that most of the womenfolk are defiantly smocked and sprigged from start to finish, like extras from "Little House on the Prairie"; when Corinne wears her dress off the shoulder, it is plucked back into position by a helpful friend.

This ball, not quite a line drive, came down a yard or two north of that one, and was plucked back niftily from beyond the barrier by the Cards' Carlos Beltran, who slammed heavily into the four-foot wall there but held on.

Your precious moments disappeared into this little black box, only to be plucked back into reality days/weeks/whenever the hell you remembered to get the film developed/years later.

Columbia Pictures plucked back Margarita Carmen Cansino's hairline to erase her Mexican heritage.

And as the top of a given hour approaches, your awareness becomes more acute: that's when the bombs go off, the trains depart, the executions take place — all the stuff that has the people on screen anxiously glancing over their shoulders or plucking back the cuffs of their jackets.

In her "bracelet" gestures — which Ms. Nadeau projected especially well — the ballerina casts out light and then seems to pluck it back again; she also becomes the enchantress at the heart of this ballet's forest.

Descending again, we traversed the city's marble main street, which proved to be even more satiny than the calle in Palermo, and the eternal frustration of cruise travelers regretted that a bus was waiting to pluck us back to the docks.

Accipitrids tend to pluck the back or belly area and will start feeding while the prey is still alive, so long as it does not protest too vigorously.

It's not necessary to pluck the back ones because they shouldn't be able to show through, but if you don't mind the extra pain and they bug you, feel free to pluck them.

By telephone I plucked my wife back.

Sometimes hairs, once plucked, never grow back.