How to Use pluck in a Sentence

pluck

1 of 2 verb

• The hunter plucked the bird's feathers.
• He plucked a stone out of the river.
• Firefighters plucked the child from the top floor of the burning building.
• My sister plucked a white hair from my head.
• He'd been plucked from obscurity and thrust into the national spotlight.
• This time, Franklin didn’t quite reach back and pluck it out of the air.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Dec. 2022
• Woodcock are best plucked and cooked with the skin on to hold in the fat.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
• The characters feel like they’ve been plucked from a book of archetypes.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
• You get plucked out of your little bubble and whisked across the world.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
• Rescuers plucked dozens of people from the water or the shore.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
• Once the hair finally breaks free, resist the urge to pluck or shave it.
  — Maddy Zollo Rusbosin, Women's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
• Or, the Mountain West’s top brands could be plucked away to join the current Pac-12 lineup.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• When plucked, their broken stems well up with milky droplets.
  — Jacey Fortin Mike Belleme, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• Was this one of the hens that had pecked my hand or plucked feathers from the pink rump of another?
  — Hazlitt, 14 Feb. 2024
• The result is a stall that looks plucked from Tampopo and planted on the Bowery.
  — Abe Beame, Essence, 20 Dec. 2023
• Seafood is plucked from the sea and served up fresh and all-you-can-pick blueberry farms dot the landscape.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2024
• The Aztecs won’t be plucking another QB out of the portal.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2024
• For the show’s first few episodes, the music choices were simply plucked from his own iPod.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2023
• There may be no available route for Scalise to pluck off the necessary votes to win.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
• There is no farm to go pluck any more Cy Young winners from with less than three weeks in the season.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The sight of the pup being plucked from the river made some people emotional.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• That old clip had begun with Doty plucking a pole from a trash bin.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• Whether they’re plucked from a chicken or saved from a wild turkey, giblets can be used in all sorts of ways.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
• His lungs and larynx were plucked out, placed in an urn, and kept in Missolonghi.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• In general, puddle ducks should be plucked, leaving the skin on the meat.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 17 Aug. 2023
• But do not pluck, wax, or groom the area with any treatment that removes the hair follicle from the root.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 21 Mar. 2023
• The priest didn’t just pluck a brown-skinned baby from the pews every winter to play Jesus.
  — Taylor Harris, Time, 13 Dec. 2022
• For the coach to pluck that first five-star guard out of Georgia only makes the signing all the more impressive.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• The fillet arrived hot and fresh, showing no signs of oil even though it was clearly plucked from the fryer just seconds earlier.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• Last night, the duo attended the issue launch in coordinating midis, which had been plucked from the Erdem’s pre-fall 2024 tribute to Maria Callas.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2024

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pluck

2 of 2 noun

• It takes pluck to do what she did.
• She showed pluck in getting up on stage.
• But the trend doesn’t pluck at the heartstrings of all.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2018
• That the Seahawks hung with the 49ers to the absolute end is a tribute to their pluck.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 29 Dec. 2019
• Egrets and herons pluck meals from the shoreline and fly by on their way to nesting islands.
  — Ben Abramson, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2017
• Pick these golden-hued plants by hand and get a fistful of joy with each pluck.
  — Country Living, 22 Mar. 2023
• Hand-pluck coarse texture out of the brow to see more skin throughout and to get the brow to appear more feathered.
  — Jennet Jusu, Allure, 16 Feb. 2022
• This was not just a matter of courage, pluck, and fortitude.
  — Razib Khan, National Review, 31 July 2021
• Lue’s players tell it, that pluck stemmed as much from him as despair.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2021
• His mother, instead, plucks and offers a large grape from the vine.
  — Erica Hellerstein, The Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2019
• About the Baltic states, there are many things to be admired, including their pluck.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Sep. 2021
• Pluck apart owl pellets to discover what the prey tells us about the predators.
  — Kathy Bennett, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2017
• Ricky Powell oozed vintage New York City charm and pluck.
  — Amanda Rosa, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
• The tweezer feels strong and durable when holding it, and it can be used lightly and still get quite a few hairs with each pluck.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2023
• The idea of cutting off all that life, all that growth and pluck, just for a better view of clapboard, sickened us.
  — Peg Rosen, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2021
• My muscles, which had tensed the second before the pluck, relaxed.
  — ELLE, 28 Apr. 2022
• But with enough pluck and gumption, plus money and genius, it can be done.
  — The Washington Post, al.com, 19 June 2019
• The real story is one of pork pies, warm beer and gritty working-class pluck.
  — Gerard Degroot, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
• Some of that pluck was lost when Torey Krug departed as a free agent two seasons ago for St. Louis.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022
• Pan, impressed by Fosse’s dancing skill no less than his pluck, told him to go ahead.
  — John Check, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• Beyond making sure the case itself is the proper size for your bow, look for a case with ample pluck foam.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 1 Dec. 2020
• Landy Hite was not in terrific voice opening night -- but talk about pluck.
  — Lee Williams, OregonLive.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Child services pluck Loquareeous out of his house and place him in foster care.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2022
• But over eight hour-long episodes, that youthful pluck starts to seem less like a reason to doubt him than a reason to believe in him.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
• The cut-to-fit foam of some models like the protector holds guns even more securely than pluck-to-fit foam does.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 17 Jan. 2023
• Where a 15 seed, with just the right amount of pluck and a few breaks, can become basketball royalty overnight.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2020
• Mathew Barzal, whose lack of pluck resulted in but one shot attempt over his 16:24 in ice time.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2021
• All their stories illuminate the strength, pluck and deep sense of obligation to do the right thing.
  — WSJ, 12 Dec. 2017
• No one this cycle has set foot on a debate stage, and there’s a decent shot that Trump will skip the first debate on Aug. 23 just to prove his pluck.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 31 July 2023
• Clean up your arches with a few plucks of a tweezer or by threading your eyebrows to nab any errant hairs.
  — Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024