Example Sentences

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No one knows exactly when, but from the vast expanse of tropical air around the Equator, atmospheric currents will pluck out a long tendril of water vapor and funnel it toward the West Coast.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2022

Shrewd pumpkin pickers will pluck up the best of the lot the first or second weekend in October, the grower said, but last weekend’s rains probably reduced the crowds.

From Washington Times • Oct. 24, 2020

That line will pluck a particular string in the hearts of several generations of Americans who grew up with Fred Rogers, and then went on to parent children who grew up with him.

From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2020

Instead of just sticking their head into the box and getting the meat out and being done with it, they will pluck at the boxes, break them up into tiny pieces and think it’s wonderful.

From Scientific American • Mar. 24, 2014

He will pluck it from the ashes like a warm egg.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr