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

These video free-lancers are angry because many of the TV signals they have been plucking from the sky are one by one turning into a jumble.

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)