Sentences with phrase «plucked off»

What does a scientist know about democracy that anyone plucked off the street doesn't know?

«It was hanging over his bed, and she admired it, and he plucked it off the wall.»

Sure enough, shortly after being medically cleared by our veterinary staff, Evie was plucked off the adoption floor by an excited adopter and whisked off to her new home.

Because their script was plucked off Amazon by the professional readers for publishers / agents, into the new slush pile and passed onto the senior or junior editor at an agency or publishing house.

This one is mac «n» cheese yellow, and it has a carbon - fiber rear wing that might've been plucked off the trunk of a Honda Civic parked in front of some AutoZone parts store.

(Once a week, an engine is randomly plucked off the line and completely disassembled to ensure that exacting tolerances are being met.)

I walked out and plucked them off the customers car.

Plucked off the top of an apartment building, Gerry and his family are whisked away to a military ship in the middle of the ocean where the UN employee is given two options.

The bitter gourds you see in the picture above are freshly plucked off the vine.

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

Thus the percentage of students plucked off the waitlist varies greatly from year to year.

She smiled at me, stuck her ball on the desk, and plucked it off again.

They're seeds, and when plucked off a plant they're covered by a pulpy red cherry.

Such pride among humanists need their leaves to be plucked off on accasions!

Some had their hats violently plucked off and thrown away, so that they quite lost them.

The Greek was karpous, fruits, literally things you pluck off a tree.

Well, I may not be growing tons of herbs, but I'm reaching in to pluck off a tons of herb leaves every 5 seconds from the ones that I've bought!

Then, just pluck off a portion for each tortilla.

When cool enough to handle, pluck off tomato skins and stems and discard.

The blistered tomato skins and stems are now easy to pluck off and discard.

If they look all hungover and wilted, just pluck them off.

I've always wanted to try a poppy seed roll anyway, so might as well pluck it off the bucket list!!

Pluck off the leaves you want to use and lay them face down on a flat surface.

Pluck off outer green leaves and place in a large bowl.

Remove chicken from marinade (do not discard) and pat dry with paper towels; pluck off any aromatics still stuck to chicken.

It may not be logical, but kids think brussels sprouts taste better when they can pluck them off the stalk rather than pick them out of a pile.

Personalised gifts are my absolute favourite because they show that someone has put a lot of thought into your gift instead of just plucking it off the shelf and every gift is unique.

We'd been instructed to pluck off a couple...

You would need to pluck off few red roses and wash it properly to remove the dirt if any.

In an energetic, «Be Our Guest» - ish production number, the supermarket food sings in praise of the «gods» who will bring them to the «great beyond» — that is, the humans who will pluck them off the shelves, take them away from the supermarket and, unbeknownst to these trusting foodstuffs, consume them with abandon.

It all recalls the Games themselves, as the group encounters subterranean entities, bombs, massive guns — you name it — all executed in a fashion that will have you fearing for the fate of well - loved characters in a series noted for unexpectedly plucking them off.

They can water the plants as needed, pluck off dead leaves or pull up weeds whenever they sprout up.

TICKS and Ivermectin - While I still maintain that the best way to control ticks is to go over your dog every day and pluck them off with a tweezers (some people drown them in soapy water or other detergent), you can also get an additional measure of control by using ivermectin.

Intuition tells us that the small animals who live with us would most likely enjoy just about anything we could pluck off a plant, but experience reminds us that some of the most seemingly harmless produce items are toxic to our pets.

This depends entirely on which line of dog food you're plucking off the shelves.

People are going to look at Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada and know exactly what their getting when they pluck it off the shelves or add it to their cart.

Player Owned Dungeons: Players can create their own instanced dungeons to watch others adventurer (and maybe even pluck off a little loot from the unfortunate).

Subsequent releases in Super Mario All - Stars and Super Mario Advance would not only include the bow, but in the latter game, also allow the player to pluck it off her head and toss it away.

Through effective marketing, you can make it clear that you are leaps and bounds above the rest, giving potential employers no choice but to pluck you off the shelf and add you to their collection of workers.

Not exact matches

Jessica Rovello swivels around and plucks one of the dozen or so sticky notes off the bookshelf behind her.

My plan is to simply pluck the fruit and live off of that at 40.

An arm cut off or an eye plucked out will not grow again.

Orthodox Christianity would seem to Davies ample enough to support this new life, but, whether through understandable caution or unthinking fear, it has always been indisposed to accept any notion of fullness that asks us not to cut off or pluck out what we identify as evil, but rather to know it wholly — as part of life, as part of holiness, as part even of God.

«Jesus recommends that to avoid sin we cut off our hands and pluck out our eyes.

Yes, Jesus was sarcastic, perhaps even cynical at times — such as when he instruct us to pluck out the wandering eyeball or cut off the offending hand — making light of the belief that sin might be removed surgically.

To go with the story of Genesis, the ability to pluck the apple off the tree and realize that we're utterly naked.

It is the stern saying about plucking out an eye or cutting off a hand that causes one to sin.

K that was plucked from his «parishoners» yearly before he was «laid off».

Is the Bible commanding people to cut off their hand or pluck out their eye or is He teaching that hell is so horrible of a place that it would be better to lose a limb than go their?

You know the one after the time where it was in the tree tempting Eve, so I guess when it tempted Eve it looked more like a Lizard, but then afterward God plucked it's limbs off for punishment along with giving women birth pains.