plucking in English

verb
1
take hold of (something) and quickly remove it from its place; pick.
she plucked a blade of grass
synonyms:removepick (off)pull (off/out)extracttake (off)
2
quickly or suddenly remove someone from a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
the baby was plucked from a grim foster home
3
sound (a musical instrument or its strings) with one's finger or a plectrum.
I sat with the lute in my lap, trying to reach for forgotten notes as my fingers plucked the strings.
synonyms:strumpickplunkthrumtwangplay pizzicato
verb

Use "plucking" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "plucking" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "plucking", or refer to the context using the word "plucking" in the English Dictionary.

1. Plucking of these flowers.

2. Plucking a bald eagle.

3. Gore is ripe for the plucking.

4. Plucking Grain on the Sabbath

5. Nell was plucking a harp.

6. Plucking and grafting branches (verses 7–8)

7. 76 31 Plucking Grain on the Sabbath

8. The child kept plucking at his mother's sleeve.

9. Grinding mills, eviscerators, conveyor belts, plucking machines

10. I do believe you're better at clucking'than at plucking'.

11. She was plucking her eyebrows with a pair of tweezers .

12. Nelly begged me not to leave her, and plucking up courage I stayed.

13. He sat on the bed, idly plucking the strings of his guitar.

14. Wild Blackberries also have big thorns and are quite prickly, so be careful when plucking the fruit.

15. “The classifier tests the strength of the staple by plucking it with his index finger,” explains the foreman.

16. Both men crouched down, facing each other, Nino plucking the mandolin for a few harsh chords.

17. There are elastic adjusters (44) provided between the disc(30) and the plucking clamp strips (20).

18. I'm thankful that women my age will need bifocals to see the chin hairs that they missed plucking.

19. Geladas' dextrous hands are grass-plucking machines, moving as many as 150 blades a minute from soil to mouth.

20. Recall the time when the Pharisees condemned his disciples for plucking grain and eating it on the Sabbath.

21. Balalaika definition is - a usually 3-stringed instrument of Russian origin with a triangular body played by plucking or strumming.

22. This process, called plucking, is caused by subglacial water that penetrates fractures in the bedrock and subsequently freezes and expands.

23. Blackbirds have been riffling through the feather moss, plucking out chunks and scattering it about like bright green mattress stuffing.

24. Give each student a rubber band and let him experiment to see what notes he can make by plucking it.

25. The tow rope sprang taut, plucking the dinghy clear as the swell broke, thundering forward on to the waiting coral.

26. 6 Now on a sabbath he was passing through grainfields, and his disciples were plucking and eating the heads of grain,+ rubbing them with their hands.

27. It opens with the father, Chef Chu, plucking a live chicken from his backyard coop and minutes later turning it into a steaming, mouth-watering casserole dish.

28. Two fingerlike parts on the tip of the trunk allow the elephant to perform delicate maneuvers such as picking a berry from the ground or plucking a single leaf off a tree.

29. Recall, for instance, when the Pharisees charged that Jesus’ followers had violated the Sabbath law by plucking a few heads of grain in a field and eating them while passing through.

30. A tea plant will grow into a tree of up to 16 m (52 ft) if left undisturbed, but cultivated plants are generally pruned to waist height for ease of plucking.

31. “Virtual Mind Amazements” is an intelligent, interactive, sophisticated, and fun virtual show with Stetson reaching through the screen and effortlessly plucking your thoughts over the web and under the most impossible conditions

32. For instance, when the Pharisees criticized his disciples for plucking heads of grain on the Sabbath, Jesus demonstrated from the account recorded at 1 Samuel 21:6 how the Sabbath law should be applied.

33. You can go to the beach, you'll find these simple organisms that use proteins -- basically molecules -- to template what is essentially sand, just plucking it from the sea and building these extraordinary architectures with extreme diversity.

34. So if your cat suddenly starts to groom more or there are patches of missing or Barbered fur (where chewed hair shafts have become stubble) to suggest he is licking or plucking more, make sure to check for fleas and look for any changes in his diet history or environment

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