pluck
verb (used with object)
to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc..
plucks
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present tense formof pluck (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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He frequently plucks from his tremendous word hoard gems that will send you to the dictionary: bonxie, fankle, rupestral, stramash, zawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Carpenter plucks Cricket from arts college and its meaningless pontificating to his “atelier in the corn,” a ramshackle Victorian where Cricket learns how to transmute what he sees with color and light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
He plucks each stake from the ground, knowing that while these flower decorations might feel insignificant amid the devastation, they also might make her smile.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
Anne Thompson notes that “The Holdovers’” “David Hemingson should take this — the film is popular and plucks the heartstrings.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
She also plucks up handfuls of brown grass.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
