plucked

Both her parents had died some years before, so she plucked up the courage and asked her older brother.

It gave the cake a glossy, almost shellacked finish—the kind of thing that made it look like it had been plucked straight from the window of a sun-drenched Italian bakery.

“I never lied in my heart,” she tells Mitch, in words that seem plucked from Williams’ own soul.

A three-pronged claw descended from above and plucked a stone off the seabed.

The second movement was the respite, opening with the harp and plucked strings.