Plucked in a sentence

The string can be plucked at any point between the bridge and the point where the fretting hand is holding down the string; different timbres are produced depending on where along the string it is plucked.

The two strings of a course are virtually always stopped and plucked together, as if a single string—but in rare cases, a piece requires that the two strings of a course be stopped or plucked separately.

And in his memoir Spare, he details the moment he plucked up the courage to broach the subject with his granny - and her 'cryptic' nine-word response.

And this was not compared to random humans plucked off the street.

As fun as fighting in Like a Dragon: Ishin is, there are moments it feels like this remake plucked the combat from a 9-year-old game and ported it over to this latest release.

At the recent dig, Zierden’s team plucked perhaps 200 small artifacts from the cellar.

But legend has it, he plucked out his own eye himself when a senior member of the Dan clan advised him that an enemy could snatch it during a battle.

Certainly, he sounds as though he was plucked straight from an Indiana Jones movie – a blue-eyed adventurer who wore a gun on a shoulder-holster.

Chow, 63, was plucked from relative obscurity for promotion by the pope in 2021, two years after the death of his predecessor, Bishop Michael Leung.

Enter the geneticists, who plucked tissue from the 90-year-old remains, extracted DNA, and used that DNA to sequence the dog’s genome.

Except instead of strumming they plucked the strings and made it sound like a canon going off.

Francis, formerly of Swindon Town, was plucked from North Leigh last summer, but never featured for the first team.

He added that the made up amounts are being "plucked out of the air" with no clear justification.

His club Real Madrid would stack his side with the best talents plucked from different corners of the globe.

However, the show's team seemingly reached into the past and plucked an older model of London's beloved bus to be slapped onto the poster.

Instead you cheer on as they send tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) untrained and ill-equipped people plucked off the street to their certain death.

Now, there is a farm shop, a boutique, overnight rooms, and two restaurants whose fresh produce is plucked from the thriving vegetable and herb garden out the back.

On the way, there have been invasive weeds to be plucked from cracks in medieval masonry and the relentless task every homeowner will be familiar with – checking thousands of the roof slates are all secure and in place.

The festival aimed to promote various forms of intangible culture heritage (ICH), including Naru Great Dancing, an ancient Lhasa dance dating back to the seventh century, and the well-known Dramyen, a traditional Tibetan plucked string instrument.

These photos, plucked from the YEP archive, feature as well as the old swing bridge and views from above the town.