Sentence examples for plucked me from inspiring English sources

David Lynch plucked me from obscurity.

"In 1965, when I was 27, Ben Bradlee plucked me from the slush pile of probationary reporters.

He plucked me out of a store in Harlem and encouraged me to open the first "Nobody Beats the Wiz" store on Fulton Street.

"No, I haven't done tennis, but ESPN plucked me seven and a half years ago from Redding, Calif., and pretty much everything I did I did for the first time," he said.

Back in my hotel, after a corner man plucked me from the wrong building – an echoing space that felt like a lobby but smelled of cigarettes and tea – I met another hotel guest.

"He plucked me out of nowhere and gave me a chance to get back in the Football League," recalls Yates to BBC Radio Gloucestershire.

"She plucked me out," Akers says.

"They plucked me out of the band and said, 'You're better than Chic.' That's wacky to me.

So a couple of young hippie teachers in a Volkswagen bus plucked me from my tree-house in the redwoods and allowed me to customize my own education.

I was only 15 when I started wondering why the world plucked me from my country of birth and dropped me off in Idaho Falls, ID.

When I was three a rastaman plucked me up and threw me over his shoulder and ran away with me, laughing hysterically as my poor mother, eight-months pregnant with my sister and carrying groceries, tried to chase after him and rescue me.