Trump's appearance in Minnesota was aimed at trying to pluck away the state from Democratic hands.

Look alive, senor, the turnkey ordered, and to emphasize his words reached a hand forward to pluck away the sobbing lad.

Allison and I explored each other's bodies, plucking away, examining every crevice.

Why, you will find your whole life plucked away with its roots!

Hazel picked out a daisy and plucked away the petals one by one.

The mask that she wears is not to be plucked away.

The lightning broke off abruptly and the couch was plucked away from us.

Behind her Arab and Israeli, plucked away insensate, topple from the bloody stair.

It plucks away by the root all sense of dignity, and all manly confidence.

Still operating on a school-year calendar, still single, still plucking away at his guitar.

My brows had been plucked away into insignificance because that was the look back then.

An imponderable hand plucked away my garments of convention.

He plucked away bone chips from a nicked rib.

I plucked away my hands, and showed her a countenance before which she shrank in fear.

Suckers too, or superfluous side­shoots (charang), which spring luxuriantly, are to be plucked away.

And he answered me, as he plucked away-