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"Plucking" in a Sentence (13 examples)
She spent over half an hour plucking her eyebrows!
Mary started plucking her eyebrows when she was twelve years old.
Tom is plucking a chicken.
I am plucking the turkey.
Mary is busy plucking the feathers from the chicken.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son. I'm only plucking pheasants 'til the pheasant plucker comes.
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to procure the largest quantity of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
The mistletoe is still hung up in farm-houses and kitchens at Christmas, and the young men have the privilege of kissing the girls under it, plucking each time a berry from the bush. When the berries are all plucked the privilege ceases.
The art of taxation simply consists in plucking the goose in such a way as to get as many feathers as possible, with as little screaming as possible.
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Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings […].
Yield per acre and moisture content of grass pluckings taken at 14- or 28-day intervals during the seasons of 1933 and 1934
Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]
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