unplucked

• “Plastic flowers bunched in my carrier bag, eyebrows unplucked, hair greasily grasping the wind.”

  Fictionaut: Temporary Passport

• “Inside was a headless, unplucked chicken hanging from one leg, a small bucket placed beneath it to catch drops of blood.”

  Fictionaut: Stalling

• “In the glare of the bedside lamp she could see the features magnified, coarsened, pores like miniature craters, two unplucked hairs standing like bristles at the corner of the mouth.”

  Fictionaut: She Closed Her Eyes

• “And for you lazy, er, low-maintenance ladies -- the unplucked brow is a veritable gift!”

  Verena von Pfetten: Brow-O-Wow: Bushy Eyebrows Make A Comeback (PHOTOS, POLL)

• “The low-hanging fruit stubbornly remains unplucked.”

  David Roberts: Energy Efficiency vs. Neoliberal Economics

• ““Well, Katie, when your pluck is unplucked and your pep is—””

  Simon & Schuster: Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware

• “I go to put the last of the crumpets in the fridge in the kitchen, where they join a plucked and trussed chicken waiting to be eaten, an unplucked but folded knob-billed duck waiting to be skinned for the collection, and some cockroaches happily licking at the empty egg compartment.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Year on the Wing

• “Mr. Grandage's cuts are tactful and speed the second half along beautifully, but the heart of Hamlet's mystery remains unplucked, as it ought.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Artist Princes' Painted Germany's Rise and Fall

• “But Khmer soup isn't like Progresso; it's country style and that means picking through gristle, unplucked hairs, and tiny bones to get to the tasty bits.”

  Archive 2008-01-01

• “The duck is cleaned on the inside, but left unplucked, then stuffed with herbs, onion, garlic and the cactus fruit xoconoxtle and covered with mud.”

  Mexican Wild Game - Duck And Quail

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