have been plucking
- present perfect progressive of pluck.
Example Sentences
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"We have been plucking and eating mushrooms for years. How could we know they could be poisoned?"
From BBC ● May 19, 2022
Rescue helicopters have been plucking survivors from rooftops.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2021
The gap has narrowed in recent years, however, as major law firms have been the branches from which corporations and banks and other large-scale entities have been plucking their increasingly-savvy GC’s.
From Forbes ● Sep. 8, 2014
Heath may have been plucking virtue from necessity, but he put his finger on the primary cause of the destruction of a great company.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ben Jonson's Masque of Queens— 'And I have been plucking, plants among, Hemlock, henbane, adders-tongue Night-shade, moon-wort, libbard's bane And twice, by the dogs, was like to be ta'en.'
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
