Sentence examples for such as plucking from inspiring English sources

Using some rigorous economics to calculate this value is probably better than the alternatives, such as plucking a number out of thin air, or concluding that to put a price on life is simply too distasteful thus, in effect, valuing it at zero.Various methods have been tried.

Deformations within the ice itself are excluded, as are processes of glacial erosion, such as plucking of bedrock and the particle-by-particle removal and transport of sediment by glacier ice.

Unlike other eyebrow treatments such as waxing, plucking or threading, Microblading creates a perfectly defined brow with minimum upkeep.

Sounds are produced when vibrating objects, such as the plucked string of a guitar, produce pressure pulses of vibrating air molecules, better known as sound waves.

Such writers have a gift that is as mysterious to nonwriters as plucking melodies out of thin air is to nonmusicians.

Birds need a lot of attention, and neglect can lead to health problems such as feather plucking.

Birds that are not allowed appropriate time to behave as birds can turn to other ways to get attention such as feather plucking and being aggressive towards other birds and humans.

The Bocca Cookbook exactly replicates the experience of eating in Kenedy's restaurant, by which I mean that the delicious-sounding dishes (the majority) soften you up for such things as pluck with artichokes (pluck is the bits – heart, lungs, liver, sweetbreads – that come out when you pull out an animal's windpipe), or focaccia with lung and spleen.

Probably the most offensive of the colonial writers was Henty, a keen imperialist and author of 122 Boy's Own adventures with names such as By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War.

There are also zithers that are bowed rather than plucked, such as the Korean ajaeng.

Other tablatures have been used for bowed instruments, such as the viol; for plucked instruments, such as the cittern, guitar, and zither; and also for non-Western instruments, such as the Japanese koto, a type of zither.