plucking

Also plucking in the evenings is like reading a book on dark side of Mars, in a barrel.

That means plucking bugs by hand in the evening from potatoes, weeding by hand, watering by hand.

Taxation is about plucking the goose so as to get the most feathers, with the least squawking.

My childhood black lab would run around with us plucking berries with its mouth as the family picked into buckets.

A nice haircut and an eye brow plucking would go a long way for many.

Farms were created by hauling buckets of water up onto the roof to make mud and plucking wild berries for seeds to plant.

I would definitely prefer a hands on at a store before plucking down that kind of cash.

But in reality, there will be some degree of 'plucking' going on.

Different species of spiders will respond in different ways, and so the Portia learn to intelligently apply different patterns of plucking to fit the circumstances.

It would be reasonably straightforward to generate encoded messages that are about as coherent as spambots plucking a series of random phrases from the web.

I'm plucking those hypotheses out of thin air, but it seems obvious that the risk goes up because of some underlying reason.

Are you plucking number out of the air, or have you derived your figures in a logical and well-thought out manner with the assumptions clearly identified?

Notably, the idea of "plucking" children that display intelligence from a young age and somehow aiding them in their education.

Don't forget that something with a common English word as a name ("hair plucking") is not as simple as "occasionally plucks some hair", but "compulsively plucks hair, to the point of semi baldness, with distress as a result".

Plucking a number from the air, let's say that one year of study is $50,000.