Sentences with phrase «got plucked»

The larger clusters tend to rise to the top of the bag, so those got plucked out right away.

It's become a dictum that every year at least 50 hourly workers get plucked from the factory floor to go along with Foster on visits to customers, so they can see the results of their labors.

Yet we were complaining about our top players getting plucked away year after year.

Yeah, lets not heap praise until its announced... You know what it's like being an Arsenal fan... How many times have we been so close, and then a player gets plucked from under our noses... So frustrating!

Our kids need to get plucked right down into the natural world and get it all over them.

Similarly if a cosmic string gets plucked, oscillations travel along it at very high speed — at the speed of light — and they produce gravitational waves as they travel.

We could get plucked off this physical plane at any moment and have no control over how it happens.

-LRB-!!!!!!!) I also wanted a jacket that was not filled with down and feathers, but synthetic fibres, because geese get plucked alive for their feathers, which causes them a lot of pain and leaves them with bleeding skin, so cruel!

I want a fuller brow, but its so hard not to get them plucked.

With indie stars often getting plucked for trad pub eventually anyway — because indie is now the farm system where trad pub looks most closely, for all the hot new horses.

A stray kitten that spent a year recuperating with an animal rescue group after getting plucked from the streets of a flood - ravaged section of Brooklyn has finally been adopted — by a fellow Superstorm Sandy refugee.

A stray kitten that spent a year recuperating with an animal rescue group after getting plucked from the streets of a flood - ravaged section of Brooklyn has finally been adopted — by a fellow Superstorm Sandy...

To boost your chances of getting plucked, you'll need a top - notch resume.

Not exact matches

This year, the task got much easier since the U.S. Open began relying on IBM's artificial intelligence tool, Watson, to watch the games and pluck out highlights.

So the apostles got it all wrong, and one or two lines plucked entirelly out of context is enough to base the most ridiculous inanities.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 ¶ To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

In Russia, the only time you could get your hands on chicken livers would be by buying a chicken, which came with all of its entrails and a few feathers here and there, that you'd be responsible in plucking.

The news outlet are also reporting that Southgate has confirmed that he will only be selecting players for the England squad should they be playing well for their clubs, so with Rashford's shortage of game time, he may have to pluck up his ideas and get back into United's startling line - up before the season's over.

Getting fat from lying around in hospitals having my bones plucked out.

Debuchy's injury against Manchester City saw Chambers get an opportunity to play at Right - Back, his natural position, and although he has been proficient in going forward, his defensive game still has a few holes to be plucked.

I mean think about it: he's basically an Arsenal super-fan plucked from Charlton who gets to play for his team.

A win against United, followed up by a win on Sunday against Stoke will get Saints to 51 points and most possibly eighth position, which to be fair to Puel is not terribly bad for a team that has its stars regularly plucked out by bigger teams in the league and that reached the final of the League Cup earlier in the season.

And while your little one is busy enjoying a relaxing bounce or plucking at a toy bar, you can hopefully get a few things done around the house.

Mom can choose to wax, get laser treatment, pluck, or bleach, but the hair will be stubbornly persistent.

No matter how great an opportunity these Olympian cock - ups provide for Labour to get their own back having had the Games plucked from Tessa Jowell's clutches, the spectacle is turning out to be symptomatic of a deeper change in British society; a transformation beyond the realms of petty political bickering.

Love him or hate him, you've got to admire his pluck.

He has found that a nest's chance of survival depends on the predator's technique — broods are least likely to survive (10 %) when the predator manages to get into the cavity through the existing entrance, more likely (29 %) when the predator uses its paws or beak to pluck out the nest contents, and most likely to survive (39 %) when the predator tries to enlarge the opening or make a new one.

After all, this is as close as we're going to get to emulating Luke Skywalker's ability to pluck his X-wing from the swamps of the planet Dagobah.

Houston, we've got a thrumming sound In a photo op plucked straight from nerd heaven, a phalanx of stormtroopers converged this week on Houston's William P. Hobby Airport to escort a NASA official carrying the lightsaber prop wielded by actor Mark Hamill in the 1983 movie Star Wars.

«Knowing that infants may be biased to learn that fruits plucked from leafy green plants are edible suggests strategies for getting young children interested in eating novel fruits and vegetables, such as taking them to a «pick - your - own» fruits and vegetables farm.»

Well, I hope you enjoyed this interview and plucked several nuggets of info to get you motivated and started on showing off your flat abs shortly.

I knew how to get the answer; I went to our team of She's Got Style global fashionistas and plucked these stunning women's beauty faves from our interviews with them.

For years, I tried to even them out with either plucking or coloring them in with anything I could get my hands on (usually eyeshadow), so I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered this product, that was in my price range.

I don't pluck my brows but prefer to get them threaded, that way the lines look neater.

Kevin Hart, J.B. Smoove, Gabrielle Union, Cedric the Entertainer, Tracy Morgan, and Leslie Jones have all been featured in marketing (and all manage to get great comedic moments to shine); however, Rock's bench of friends goes much deeper than that to include famous icons, up and coming comedic talent, and even a few celebrity faces plucked from obscurity.

So once Gracie savagely beats cohort and dimwit misogynist Agent Matthews (Benjamin Bratt), we understand that they're destined for l'amour — but only if Hart gets her eyebrows plucked, fitted for a girdle, and buys whole hog into the extreme - makeover thing.

Yet we never get any particular sense of who Moonee and Halley are as individuals beyond their predicament and pluck, and why they are at the center of the movie, instead of, for instance, Scooty and Ashley, or Jancey and Stacy, or Bobby and the young delivery man named Jack who seems to be his son.

Sure enough, the conflagration arrives, though not before the sullen Daisy sets her eyes on a hunky neighbor who will help her shed her sullenness and find the pluck and resolve to Get Through This.

There's promise in the opening minutes, as the ignored, belittled Betty Lou gets fed up with her swaggering cop spouse Alex (was - gonna - be-a-star Eric Thal), trails him to the scene of a Mob hit, and eventually plucks up the titular revolver used in the killing.

(You can also get an updated version of the soundtrack, which should pluck those nostalgia strings.)

(«Leave it to Beaver» fans will recall that Beaver was caught writing about Allan Dwan's slapstick The Three Musketeers in place of the Alexandre Dumas novel after his book report got to the part where «they all started plucking chickens and throwing the feathers all over the place.»)

After two pretty lousy attempts, and a lot of terrible video game adaptations on the way, Hollywood has resurrected «Tomb Raider,» and plucked the most recent supporting actress Oscar winner production could get their hands on.

Table 19 is the kind of mid-range, adult - oriented, not - quite - comedy, not - quite drama character ensemble movie that barely gets made any more, and it has a specific kind of losery charm and can - do pluck and I f*cking like it.

Familiar sound effects for things like getting treasures and leveling up pluck the old nostalgia strings.

First, Bek must get into the lower parts of the temple of gold and retrieve the plucked eyes.

Sure, Johnny Depp as J.M. Barrie got the Academy Award nomination, but only because he was acting across someone who could pluck at all our heartstrings effortlessly.

Except that these aren't just nine kids with pluck looking to get attention on their Harvard application.

Significantly refreshed, the midsize sedan gets a couple of new shades of paint, a larger mesh grille, a longer and squared off hood, wing design embellishments, and a more powerful engine plucked from a Mazda CX - 9 SUV.

Despite the F - Pace's sizable footprint, it does an impressive job of getting out of its own way, even on narrow, twisting mountain roads that seem plucked from «Gran Turismo» or «Forza.»

But to get into Kirkus, etc., do you really think they just pluck books out of the air to review?