had plucked
- past perfect of pluck.
Example Sentences
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Separately, Emergency said its rescue ship, Life Support, on Saturday had plucked to safety 55 migrants from a smugglers’ boat.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
He had plucked an album of Canadian bossa nova, a steel drums disc, some songs of Ireland, and albums by Mel Torme and Ella Fitzgerald.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2023
She had plucked pupae from a colony of clonal raider ants, where the sesame seed-size offspring that looked like puffed rice cereal were being fussed over by both younger larvae and older adult ants.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
Compared with the original Syn61Δ3, the altered microbes became more resistant to the 12 viruses that scientists had plucked from environmental samples, the team revealed in July.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 19, 2022
Where just a moment ago there had been nothing, now suddenly there was the Talent the Owner had plucked from the man in the gray suit, clean and condensed and opaque, like an ice cube.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
