How do you use Pluck in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like pull or pick, plus the exact meaning.
Pluck meaning
- To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
Synonyms of Pluck
Using Pluck
- The main meaning on this page is: To pull something sharply; to pull something out | To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. | To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- Useful related words include: pull, pick up, pick, force.
- In the example corpus, pluck often appears in combinations such as: to pluck, pluck the, and pluck.
Context around Pluck
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pluck
- In this selection, "pluck" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, finger, entrepreneurial, skyscraper, yew, lightning and actors stand out and add context to how "pluck" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a heartstring pluck and i and a skyscraper pluck lightning bolts. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pluck" sits close to words such as abrogation, agnew and airman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pluck
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And they had plenty of entrepreneurial pluck. (7 words)
In glorious morn, let’s pluck flowers, my son! (9 words)
Call all your units back, climb over, and pluck out the onion. (12 words)
Aside from giving him a serious boost in the power department, Luffy's ultimate form also allows him to grow to the size of a skyscraper, pluck lightning bolts from the sky, and even transform objects that he makes contact with. (41 words)
When I pluck an apple from the tree and let it fall, the apple needs to know how far away from the Earth it is so that it can have the proper rate of acceleration. (35 words)
Put another way, it's the equivalent of being able to pluck out a single coin from a stack of pennies more than 17 million times higher than the height of Mount Everest. (33 words)
I can still pluck yew, subby pleasant mother pheasant plucker, *waves middle finger* pluck yew! (15 words)
In glorious morn, let’s pluck flowers, my son! (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
I can still pluck yew, subby pleasant mother pheasant plucker, *waves middle finger* pluck yew!
And they had plenty of entrepreneurial pluck.
Aside from giving him a serious boost in the power department, Luffy's ultimate form also allows him to grow to the size of a skyscraper, pluck lightning bolts from the sky, and even transform objects that he makes contact with.
Call all your units back, climb over, and pluck out the onion.
I felt a heartstring pluck and I remembered as a child getting excited at the music and just letting my arms wave and wiggle.
If one finds a beautiful flower, never pluck it and analyse it under a microscope, feels actor Kay Kay Menon, who draws the analogy for late actor Irrfan Khan’s son Babil.
If they can pluck this number overnight they could have settled our claims years ago.
Neither judgmental remarks by another whose social isolation had them heaping harsh as I acknowledged pressures with candour and considerable pluck.
Sir Keir offered to give Labour support to get a Brexit deal through parliament on Wednesday, saying Mr Sunak was still trying to “pluck up the courage to take on the malcontents”.
The toxic element mixes with gold dust and forms an amalgam he can pluck out of the sludge.
The world of showbiz is always quick to pluck actors from their current projects to cast them into others.
Unfortunately, events steer away from this premise and pluck sections of “The Death Of Superman” and “Superman: Doomsday,” making everything feel too convoluted.
When I pluck an apple from the tree and let it fall, the apple needs to know how far away from the Earth it is so that it can have the proper rate of acceleration.
Your children might not be enthused about the vegetable patch — potatoes aren’t very interesting underground — but a fruit patch where little fingers can pluck sweet strawberries will go down well.
Alexei helps Bucky pluck the bullets out of his flesh-and-blood arm, and the two actually take the time to get to know one another.
Blossom-end rot shows up as brown or black lesions at the ends of the earliest fruit promoted by inconsistent watering and nutrient movement in plants; simply pluck the bad ones.
But this doesn’t mean our three ETFs are worthless—we can use them as a kind of “dividend roadmap,” sifting through their holdings to pluck out the fastest-growing payouts.
In glorious morn, let’s pluck flowers, my son!
In order to pluck it successfully, players will have to check its pliability first.
Put another way, it's the equivalent of being able to pluck out a single coin from a stack of pennies more than 17 million times higher than the height of Mount Everest.
Common combinations with pluck
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to pluck 27×
- pluck the 14×
- and pluck 8×
- pluck and 8×
- pluck out 5×
- can pluck 5×
- pluck it 4×
- they pluck 3×
- pluck yew 2×
- pluck up 2×