Plucked in example sentence

For example, frustrated that Congress denied him all the funds he wanted for his phantasmagorical wall along the border with Mexico, he simply plucked the money from funds that Congress had allocated for the Defense Department.

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So naturally, I wound up at my local thrift store, a wonderland of other people's trash that was ripe to be plucked to become my treasure.

They've just plucked a few, and all these experiments are based on those, but there's no good evidence at all.

I mean, this girl was wicked, So he plucked up the courage and asked for her digits.

And, at once enraging and enrapturing, Cage shows us that even when there are no strings being plucked by fingers or hands hammering piano keys, still there is music, still there is music, still there is music.

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