Sentences with 'plucked'
Example sentences and phrases with the word plucked and other words derived from it.
• « Eventually, the housewife plucked up her courage and recognized the murder suspect in a photograph: it was Barry Glenn Williams, a 19-year-old stripling and leader of one of the city's most dangerous gangs. »
• « It was only when her twelfth child was born that she plucked up the courage and flushed all the pills down the toilet. »
• « And beyond that, that funny little thing that looks like a potato just plucked from the earth, is Phobos, the moon of Mars, just six thousand kilometres from where we are. So dark is the soil of Phobos that it reflects barely three to five per cent of the sunlight it receives. »
• « Plotkin plucked a leaf from a bush near the path. "They use this against stings," he explained. »