Sentences with phrase «for plucking»

«Not many people use sugar tongs anymore, but she told them it was for plucking strawberry tops.

Once the Apple Store started offering AirPods for the plucking, the pre-orders started piling.

Domingo was infamous among his peers for plucking birds alive at the dinner table.

A canary or a finch has a short, straight beak ideal for plucking seeds from a stalk or insects from tiny spaces.

I never tired of her stories about how she got in trouble for plucking the biggest, juiciest figs for herself, and especially about how difficult it was to keep those trees alive during the harsh Rhode Island winters, when the whole neighborhood would come together to help my great - grandfather with the fig - tree burying.

Kudos to Blumhouse CEO and founder Jason Blum for plucking these cost - effective gems out of thin air.

The familiar basics of the plot are the same as Maurice, Belle's father (Kevin Kline, whose sharp skills as a farceur are barely employed), is imprisoned by the Beast inside his forbidding castle for plucking a rose from his garden and Belle eventually offers to take her papa's place.

Yet for him the plucking of guitar strings is as natural as putting one foot in front of the other, and soon he finds himself going to extraordinary lengths to prove his talents as well as the fundamental flaw in his family's extant beliefs.

Lonely, and as his daughter states, «ripe for the plucking,» more than a decade after the death of his first wife, Marion, in 1910, Brown rushed to meet Lilian in Calcutta «and quickly decided to make her his wife.»

Electrical engineers Joseph Lyding and Mark Hersam of the University of Illinois developed a technique for plucking single hydrogen atoms from a silicon sheet, which may lead to a millionfold increase in the number of transistors that can be packed onto a chip.

From chocolate berries to monkey oranges and gingerbread plums, Africa is the home of thousands of tasty fruits whose potential is ripe for the plucking

Although undefeated (27 - 0, 17 KOs), Gonzalez, whom no one will ever call Speedy, was a pigeon ripe for plucking.

If there's another All - star ripe for the plucking, you take him.

I really hope that Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players do not spend this week preparing for the top of the table clash with Chelsea assuming that Chelsea will come to the Emirates stadium ripe for the plucking because of the striker crisis currently affecting the Blues, because that way lies disaster.

Come winter, when the leaves have fallen, the fruit continues to cling to the barren branches, dangling like forgotten Christmas ornaments, ripe for plucking.

Moreover, with the drive for consolidation in the healthcare sector, biotech stocks are ripe for the plucking among those seeking to make major moves in the merger and acquisition market.

As those statutes pave the way for gun owners to bring their weapons along whenever they leave home, some of those owners wind up stowing their firearms in the glovebox, the center console, or under their seats — where they are ripe for the plucking.

Gwen Stefani's known for her plucked, super angular brows which she accentuates with bold color to pop against her platinum mane.

Whatever respect I have for its pluck is balanced by how I didn't walk out of it.

Comic artists who put out their own art rather than scramble for work via the Marvel / DC / Dark Horse route are admired for their pluck and dedication.

Not exact matches

There's so much in this book that for the quote, I just plucked out one that's helped me in my interactions with colleagues and family members.

Governor Andrew Cuomo plucked him from the Madison Square Garden Co., where he was serving as executive vice president for administration.

So instead of, say, plucking a rose and extracting its oil to create a rose - scented perfume, a biologist in a lab can recreate the genomic sequence that's responsible for creating a rose scent and insert it into brewer's yeast.

To his point, petitions for H - 1B visas cost upwards of $ 1,000, and are often plucked for consideration from a lottery.

In that vein, once a quarter, Daniel Lubetzky, the founder and CEO of KIND Snacks, sits down with new hires and asks them to tell funny, personal stories, from which he plucks a common theme that becomes the identity for that «class.»

From being a straight D student in high school, to building a real estate colossus she'd sell for $ 66 million, to reinventing herself in media topped by her star - turns on «Shark Tank,» Barbara Corcoran runs on pluck, gumption, street smarts and lessons her mother taught her, which she shares on this memorable episode of «All Business With Jeffrey Hayzlett.»

So far, so good for the stock pickers Warren Buffett plucked from relative obscurity to manage billions of his dollars.

For start - ups, fewer numbers in the equation mean a projected valuation can be plucked out of thin air.

When he started saving money for college, he turned to newspapers again, plucking hundreds...

In fact, one of the most surprising aspects I learned about financial advisers while working for a Wall Street firm back in the day was the enormously diversified pool of educational and professional backgrounds from which managers plucked their team of financial advisers.

The investor is selling Tropicana, the casino he plucked out of bankruptcy, for $ 1.85 bln.

Bird's proclivity for, well, most everything serves him well once again, as each of his songs are punctuated by his piercing whistle (if you haven't heard it, you should stop reading andgo watch this), always spot - on guitar playing and classically trained violin plucking and bowing.

5:29,30; «If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.»

In civil wars with multiple factions, plucking criminals from one faction for prosecution may well raise cries of injustice from other factions and propel further conflict.

For those of you who claim she must be a dike because she's hirsute, I suggest you check into how much your own grandmothers, mothers, aunts and sisters have to shave and pluck.

He may have no eyebrows, but I would believe that was due to excessive plucking he did himself in preparation for the notorious drag balls the Vatican is world renowned for, rather than the results of some botched medical experiment, intended or not.

Thank you for my height, rooted, and thank you for my arched eyebrows, I'll give you a high - five and a good - on - ya because we've never had to pluck and that's all on you.

«And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire» (Matt.

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched [Mark 9:43 - 48].

To be sure, the hand - chopping, eye - plucking remedy for sin could never work, if for no other reason than the fact that we have more sins than we have bodily parts.

As for us preachers: «See, today I appoint you over nations and over Kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy, and to overthrow.»

I wouldn't change this one for anything and Praising the Lord — I can not be plucked out of my Father's hand.

The law allowed going through a grainfield and plucking a few ears by hand on the way, but some of the Pharisees found fault with the disciples for doing this on the Sabbath.

For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance... a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away [EcclFor everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance... a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away [Ecclfor every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance... a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away [Eccles.

The Lord said, «If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hellfire.»

Give thanks for all things On the plucked lute, and likewise The harp of ten strings.

Thank you for my arched eyebrows, I'll give you a high - five and a good - on - ya because we've never had to pluck an eyebrow and that's all on you.

C. T. Studd goes on to say that we must be «Paragons of Pluck; Dare - devil Desperadoes for Jesus; Gamblers for God.

When you have a company, and the founder is responsible for kick - starting the sexual revolution, and then you pluck out that aspect of the company's DNA by removing the nudity, it makes a lot of people, including me, sit and say, «What the hell is the company doing?»

The merman plucks up courage, he approaches Agnes, he wins her love, he hopes for his deliverance.