Sentence examples for to pluck the from inspiring English sources

With long, tapering fingers, he tried to pluck the missing name out of the air.

Adam had had to pluck the diver out of the water.

I lifted Molly and asked her to pluck the one perfect-looking Macoun from the tree.

The tortoises, for instance, invite finches to pluck the parasites off their skin.

You've got to be able to pluck the goose; you don't want to kill it".

I went up to our print sites in Watford to pluck the first copies off the belt.

She felt a reckless impulse to pluck the seed out, though she could not risk the intimacy.

It offers us a daisy to pluck, the petals of which are th messengers of our fate.

Brave, then, the creature without such instruments that tries to pluck the nut from between the wires.

Seven rescue vessels were sent to pluck the survivors clinging to the overturned hull of the Kim Nirvana to safety but 26 people are missing.

For example, when Dr Tan blindfolded his volunteers and asked them to pluck the stalks from cherries without crushing the fruit, they succeeded only 43% of the time.