8 example sentences using pluck.
Pluck used in a sentence
Pluck in a sentence as a noun
When you pluck the string, you can feel it vibrate in your fretting hand.
Yet I assume they didn't just pluck them out of thin air either.
Because the latter has a single layer of abstraction - what does `pluck` do?
With all the templates and content management you can pluck out of thin air, the result is very shoddy.
Pluck in a sentence as a verb
With your other hand, you might be plucking the string in any of a number of different places, with your finger or with a pick.
What you want to do is use fine tweezers or dental pick, and you're going to heat up one pin at a time and use the tip of the tweezer or pick to pluck the pin forward, lifting it up.
It's cheaper to pipe a stream to sed that converts it into a shell command than it is to iterate over all the lines, and individually pluck out the arguments for the commands you want to execute.
That said...I'd rather give up that advantage in exchange for keeping GitHub as an open community to share source, instead of a cauldron for the latest start up founders to pluck their next engineering hire from.
Pluck definitions
the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
See also: gutsiness pluckiness
the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"
See also: tweak
sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
rip off; ask an unreasonable price
See also: overcharge soak surcharge gazump fleece plume hook
pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"