Sentence examples for plucking on from inspiring English sources

After incubation, the owls ceased plucking on conspicuous posts and more frequently plucked their prey on the ground.

The banjo plucking on this old-timer is a thing of simple beauty and the lyrics – though telling of hard times – spry and lively.

The camera keeps nosing into rooms where the locals, plucking on their banjos (try not to think of Deliverance) or hunched over a card-table, will look round whenever a stranger enters, their faces blankly unwelcoming.

A panhandler too poor to afford a real instrument was plucking on a single string stretched between a stick and a washbasin singing: "This land is your land, this land is my land".

Plucking on the same two chords of his guitar on this lazy morning, the center fielder of the Yankees was asked if he would balk at switching to left field if the Yankees acquired Jim Edmonds from the Anaheim Angels.

Whether plucking on the high strings to evoke an icy winter rain or bowing on the low strings to suggest a rumbling summer thunderstorm, Mr. Sbrogiò said, the musicians will attack their instruments with vigor, using all of the tools at their disposal to create a multisensory experience.

"I am in / So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin," he says.

Undersize players plucked on the third day of the draft can extend their N.F.L. life expectancy with versatility.

His musical ideas work, whether plugged into a stack of amps or plucked on an acoustic guitar.

This season, the club plucked on loan the 23-year-old Polish international wing Radoslaw Majewski from Polonia Warsaw.

A foot-tapping, swinging, feel-good anthem with a chanting chorus and a strong melody plucked on a steel guitar.