Sentence examples for were plucked from inspiring English sources
verb
To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.
We climbed in and were plucked off the ice.
"They should look as if they were plucked from nature".
They were plucked from the water by a rescue helicopter.
Suddenly, we were plucked from obscurity and pushed very firmly into the limelight.
My eyebrows were plucked to a single arched line, my mouth set in a jaded moue.
Placed on the player's lap, strings toward him, they were plucked with a plectrum.
Fourteen survivors were plucked from lifeboats before dawn amid 18ft waves.
Albanese said the Coalition's figures were "plucked out of a Coco Pops packet".
Twenty-six people who had been aboard the ship were plucked from the sea afterward.
After the Greeneville struck the Japanese vessel, 26 people were plucked from the sea.
The returns were "plucked out of thin air," according to the regulators' complaint.
