Sentence examples for the plucking from inspiring English sources
verb
To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.
One of particular note is the plucking.
Tariffs and barriers will fall, and those billion customers will finally be ripe for the plucking.
It could be the carcass of an eagle, suspended from a hook, ripe for the plucking.
Every Christmas, she and her four siblings would be roped in to help with the plucking.
For him, all of the synapses and fantasies, the humanity and spirit, were there just for the plucking.
After 24 Qb4 Nc6 25 Qc5 Qc5 26 dc, the white pawn formation was ready for the plucking.
By dawn most of Saddam Hussein's military had melted away, leaving a city ripe for the plucking.
Like many gardens, the Pacific Street garden has a communal planting box where goodies like cherry tomatoes are free for the plucking.
But where Gaston sees a bland wasteland, his creator spies a bumper crop of low-hanging fruit, ready for the plucking.
Such thoughts are out of bounds, needless to say, in the Disney garden, where the rose of desire is definitely not for the plucking.
Discos like Bang and the Embassy club in London were heaving masses of newly unleashed libidos; everyone seemed ripe for the plucking.
