plucked
Example Sentences
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Tea pluckers, working in the fields, picking out the tender tea leaves and placing them in large sacks tied around their waists, are generally paid little more than the minimum wage.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2022
While carrying the sacks of leaves to be weighed, close to the colonial era "line houses" where they live, tea pluckers from Mr Mohideen's estate complained of how much more difficult everyday life had become.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2022
Plastic is the new currency, and pluckers barter their daily catch for necessities.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021
He was already winning bluegrass competitions, playing the instrument with a remarkable precision and speed usually matched only by banjo pluckers and bluegrass guitarists.
From New York Times • May 25, 2021
By the lower order of the depraved he was regarded as one of quite a large number of gentlemanly men whom they called "pigeon pluckers."
From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by Weylland, John Matthias
