pluck at something

Examples of plucked

plucked

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This means more bass tones can be plucked.
Policy, like most things, is not plucked from thin air but is the outcome of competing ideologies, values and interests.
This bat plucked the fruits from the trees, and carried them to a feeding roost to eat.
This interactive evolution tool provides information about reverberation algorithms, synthesis of percussive sounds, and an analysis of the plucked stiff string.
The accompaniment would not have been realised as presented here in score, but adapted to suit the plucked-string instruments used in performance.
Once again, however, the ideas are disembodied and plucked from their historical context.
Hair from normal and striped regions of the coat was plucked and compared.
According to the performer's interpretation, elements deemed to be contextually salient or expressive are 'plucked' from the texture, to be heard in relief.
Musical performance isn't plucked from the ether, it's worked on.
By contrast, the solos in the 1589 intermedi were predominantly accompanied by plucked strings.
Here was a sliver of time saved, protected, plucked from the endless void of forgetting.
In pizzicato violin, strummed or plucked guitar, and piano, the user is not in continuous contact with the primary resonator.
Physical modeling of plucked string instruments with application to realtime sound synthesis.
Generally the singer demanded just one accompanist, who typically played a plucked instrument.
The new sound material chosen by the teacher included bowed and plucked notes played on violin and cello.
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