Sentence examples for plucking to from inspiring English sources

Not long ago men did little in this area beyond unibrow abatement, surreptitiously plucking to avoid looking like Bert on Sesame Street, but this is changing.

Could it be that this all-too-perfect line is dangling there, just ripe for plucking, to see who will tumble and quote it?

His playing technique is mostly centred around downpicking, with occasional use of plucking to mute the strings, which he says "adds more definition and tightens up the notes, and it gives the sound less sustain".

Unfortunately we did not compare the quality of feathers formed following plucking to those formed during natural molt.

Sterilize the ends of the tweezers with rubbing alcohol before and after plucking to avoid infection.

If the pain is bad, hold a hot flannel over your brows to open the pores, or rub an ice cube over the brow after plucking, to ease the pain.

My eyebrows were plucked to a single arched line, my mouth set in a jaded moue.

Changing a line's texture would alter the instrumental timbre from plucked to bowed.

Helicopter crews in both cities plucked to safety people who had been stranded in cars and on top of buildings.

One member of the fishing party survived by swimming to shore while two others were plucked to safety by helicopter.

He acknowledged that there was a benefit to being the new guy plucked to clean up a disaster zone.