Sentence examples for would be plucked from inspiring English sources

Over 24 hours, 11 people would be plucked alive out of the waves, a two-year-old girl among them, and taken to Malta, Crete and Italy.

But fearful that she would be plucked for her knowledge and then demoted, she rejected the promise of a lucrative contract.

They would be plucked bare, squeezed between bread and pork, tiny, with the useless stumps that used to be their wings looking like broken arms bent backwards.

(Not that the Panthers reaped financial fruit, of the sort that would be plucked by their hip-hop descendants. The most successful feat in Panther history was also the most prosaic: serving free breakfasts to the children of the poor).

Fliers at the Jetport who have Maine licenses would be plucked out of security lines to undergo additional screening, and all fliers would need to arrive at least two hours before boarding, he said.

Down in Arizona, the Jets' alter-ego, the Phoenix Coyotes, had another turbulent season, with the endless questions continuing about whether the team would be able to remain or whether they would be plucked up by an investor and sent to Las Vegas, Quebec City, Hamilton, or perhaps even Seattle.

Select the appropriate point and this would be a softer part of the stem from which we would be plucking the leaves.

After three years of modelling for catalogues ('there was lots of money to be made'), teen magazines, and pop videos for The Streets and Holly Valance, she auditioned for a presenting job on Channel 4. 'If I bump into the models who I used to work with they congratulate me on getting out of the industry, but I always felt like something was going to happen, that I'd be plucked out......

Like an aspiring model who is spotted in a drugstore by a hot-shot agent, he'd been plucked from the crowd and thrust directly into the spotlight.

The ingredients of Anton DiSclafani's first novel, "The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls," sound as if they'd been plucked from two genres: the young-adult category and the historical romance.

Speaking by phone a few days later Ms. Spalding said the performance had come about unexpectedly, at Mr. Zimmer's urging; once again she'd been plucked from the ensemble for a star turn.