pluck
Example Sentences
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If Bezos had any of that pluck, we certainly would not be reading about the Post’s pending demise.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026
They were too negative and too reliant on Salah or Omar Marmoush to pluck a moment of magic out of very little service.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
“The phrase ‘Atlantic forces’ once sounded powerful, but what we have is not enough to pluck more than ten to twenty hairs from the fur of the British lion.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Forcing Chrissy Teigen to not only use a NASA-level kitchen scale to produce homemade Cheez-Its but also identify and pluck her children’s birth flowers to make dried-flower jewelry?
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
When Robin asked if he might try the harp, John showed him how to hold it and pluck the strings, but it was not so easy as it appeared.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
Vocabulary lists containing pluck
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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"The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats
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The Magician's Nephew
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