Sentence examples for plucked right from inspiring English sources

The Redskins have already plucked right guard Randy Thomas and place-kicker John Hall from the Jets as free agents.

There's a touch of Saint-Exupéry's "Little Prince" in these two children, whose adventures and lessons seem plucked right from this book: "To forget a friend is sad.

On one side was M-113, which looked plucked right off a Western soundstage — glowing red skies, chaparral landscape, vaguely Meso-American ruins.

Though Crangi says that all of the pieces are original and exclusive to JewelMint, G&B x JM looks like it was plucked right from his classic collection of Giles & Brother.

— Jeff Gordinier Gourmet: Savoring the winter growing season on a farm in New York's North Country: not just a root-cellar cornucopia of carrots, Brussels sprouts and potatoes, but sweet, cold-loving kale plucked right out of the snow.

Today in Milan, Salvatore Ferragamo's spring/summer 2014 collection seemed plucked right out of the desert, with soft bisques, olives and creams reminiscent of arid days, and deep navy blues to match the vast night sky.

The scouting director, Bill Schmidt, plucked the right amateurs in the draft, and the farm director, Bill Geivett, overhauled the system for improving them up the ladder.

One day, Starlyn vanishes, taking nothing with her. Mason is also gone, the clothes he was wearing scattered by his car, along with his wallet and keys, as if Jesus had plucked him right out of his boots.

He made 30-year-old Isy Goldwasser president of Symyx in 1998 and plucked Martin Gerstel right out of Stanford to run Alza in 1968.

The keepers then ushered the elephants behind a metal pole, where they (the elephants) stretched out their trunks and plucked beets right off my palm.

"And I haven't seen any inclination on their part to agree to anything except as a ploy from time to time," he said, saying the Iraqis sought to "kind of play the international community and the U.N. process like a guitar, plucking the right string at the right moment to delay something".