plucked

For the next two hours, they plucked Q-tips and chicken bones off the ground with grabber tools.

Lines are plucked out for their potential virality, but the actors themselves — conceivably people who are just showing up to do their jobs — aren’t thinking about what could be a single, buzzy line.

The gun that jammed was plucked from a safe before dinner, there were enough witnesses to derail the plot, and he did not seem to have a strategy for his "revolution".

Rescue teams, helicopters and drones were being used, with some people being plucked from trees.

A young girl, who had been in the middle of the scrum, squashed at the stern of the boat close to the engine, was plucked to safety as others scrambled on to the nearby sand.