Sentence examples for try to pluck from inspiring English sources
As ratings sink even further, the news magazines, worried that their eye candy isn't emotionally satisfying, try to pluck heartstrings with clichés and hype.
One such risk is to be taken today, when an astronaut will try to pluck pieces of cloth protruding from the shuttle's underside.
If he dropped his pencil on the new classroom carpet, which he disliked, he'd call out Chuck-E.-Cheese! and try to pluck it up without letting his fingers touch the fiber.
As Palestinian Arabs inhabiting these ancient lands, our destiny dictated that we should become like a fruit overhanging a garden fence: each passer-by would try to pluck us, while we struggled to cling to the vine.
"When we try to pluck out anything by itself, we find it hitched to the whole world," wrote the great Scottish naturalist John Muir – a perfect description of Robert Macfarlane's new book.
A17 SCIENCE/HEALTH Astronaut Set for Shuttle Work Stephen K. Robinson, the astronaut who will try to pluck two thin pieces of cloth from the underside of the shuttle Discovery, said that the risks of the operation were manageable.
With long, tapering fingers, he tried to pluck the missing name out of the air.
It landed on a praying clergyman and tried to pluck out his eyes.
Rival stations in New York have been trying to pluck away the Cablevision customers who ordinarily watch Fox's local newscasts.
Brave, then, the creature without such instruments that tries to pluck the nut from between the wires.
And afterward, Pakistani rescuers in helicopters spent days in difficult weather trying to pluck survivors off the mountain.
