Sentence examples for were plucked out from inspiring English sources

By this evening, 14 United Nations employees and 30 workers for other relief organizations, including some local employees in Atambua, were plucked out by helicopter and flown to Dili, the capital of East Timor.

Bright areas are thin sectioning artifacts (i.e., holes after mineral grains were plucked out during thin-sectioning).

Albanese said the Coalition's figures were "plucked out of a Coco Pops packet".

The returns were "plucked out of thin air," according to the regulators' complaint.

Then suitors become irrational, making the price people are willing to pay seem as if it were plucked out of a hat.

That fear was ratcheted further as plans for nuclear power plants in the United States were plucked out of Al Qaeda caves.

Plastic bottles and cartons are plucked out by hand.

What few weeds do appear in the loose mix — we're talking one or two — can be plucked out easily.

Colonel Ellerby had to be plucked out by the Italian riot police, and French troops moved to contain the crowd.

"I was plucked out because I had done research for a Harvard law professor for a book on war crimes," he said.

"I was lucky I was plucked out by Neath because of this Under-21 league," he says.