Example Sentences

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He has plucked leeches off his body while exploring multistoried eucalyptus in a now-blackened Australian forest.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2023

That team has plucked a critical portion of spike from eight different sarbecoviruses—the so-called receptor binding domain—and stitched them together into a “mosaic.”

From Science Magazine • Jul. 27, 2022

Yet is there not a strange peace to be found in surrendering to whatever chaos has plucked you from your personal mental river?

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

They didn’t possess his blend of peacockish flamboyance and vicious invective; the sense that he has plucked his personal style from a low-rent mafia flick.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2018

“I am glad the old gentleman has plucked up courage enough to at least attend a banquet in honor of a battle,” Jackson said sarcastically.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis