A plucked chicken.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Freakonomics or a title plucked from the bestseller's list.    From Wordnik.com.  [Challies Dot Com - Informing the Reforming] Reference

Castillo and Brad Penny are plucked from the yard sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - As Thomas struggles so do the White Sox] Reference

Buzek was plucked from the Dallas Stars in the expansion draft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rookie Buzek surprise Thrashers star] Reference

After all, he was plucked from the Manitoba Moose of the International.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Penguins face offseason makeover] Reference

He was eventually plucked from the ocean by a commercial fishing vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Striper Crazy] Reference

I was like some curiosity, plucked from the museum of early muscle-builders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - New year’s resolution.] Reference

With a pen dipped in the burning lake, and a scroll of infamy plucked from the centre of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

How often is "the rose plucked from the forehead of a virtuous love to plant a blister there!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Spider Invasion] Reference

Much to the despair of the Sisters, the brand plucked from the burning went back to the burning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit of Porportuk] Reference

Roses that lose their colors, keep their savors; and plucked from the stalk, are put to the still.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding] Reference

Li was plucked from a Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinema.SG - 3.0 Beta] Reference

But he came home filled with stories he plucked from the endless parade of humanity that marched by his window.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Farragut Square, mourning the burrito man who became a friend] Reference

Until a couple of years ago, older boys had been plucked from the streets, as if by spaceships, and sent to war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Mystic River by Dennis Lehane] Reference

Keeping people from starving to death is a fine cause to rally behind, some % savings rate plucked from a hat is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade Deficit, Saving, and Tax Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Does it negate using all that hot water to then have a clean, tine up fork plucked from the basket with grubby mitts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [610 - ponderings of a small brain] Reference

I paused there in the rain, wrapped the scarf I had just plucked from a box around me tighter, and proceeded to my car.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feeling wistful. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference

In the middle of the park is a trout hatchery, where salmon trout could be plucked from the water for 40 pesos per kilo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uruapan - The Real Mexico] Reference

She is so relieved to be rescued, like someone plucked from a deep sea, that she believes she is in love with her rescuer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voices of Love] Reference

When all the leaves were plucked from the window's square, and only the brown ivy boughs left, she turned back to the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Arden] Reference

Authorities believe the mix-up happened at a farm in France, where the grenade was plucked from the ground along with potatoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Drop the protest signs and face the facts: she was plucked from the side-show division of political obscurity because of her looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Drexler: Beauty and the Candidate] Reference

Rebels of Mars concerns a Confederate unit that is plucked from the American Civil War and transported to the Green Wastes of Mars.    From Wordnik.com.  [New RPG: [Confederate] Rebels of Mars] Reference

As we anxiously await our next featured interview, here's another chestnut plucked from the flames of my Five Easy Questions series.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Easy Questions: Charlie Huston, Part Two] Reference

And the stuffed display Rat that Thing 2 plucked from the platter of treats from a house down the street in lieu of an actual treat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halloween] Reference

While there are a few well produced video podcasts circulating the web, most resemble a video plucked from the rejected pile of AFV.    From Wordnik.com.  [Podcasting Just a Bubble?] Reference

The creature was first discovered in 2007 in Peru when a specimen was plucked from the nose of a girl who had been bathing in a river.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Species Of Nose-Dwelling Leech Discovered | Impact Lab] Reference

Every stick of furnituredesks, cabinets, footlockersappeared to have been plucked from the street and coated with the same brown paint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte] Reference

Lisa -- Having a yard is one of the things I miss the most about living in NYC -- there's nothing like fresh fruit plucked from the tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peach ice cream on a summer morning | Homesick Texan] Reference

It sounds like jargon plucked from a stuffy science journal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference

Well, Chantelle is obviously not some random name plucked from a tatty hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Z-List Celebs Get Discount Plastic Surgery; Remain Z-List Regardless] Reference

Ideos isn't just a funky word plucked out of thin air, it actually derived from Industrial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pocket-lint] Reference

510 The pad of the carob-bean which changes little after being plucked is an emblem of constancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Kate did so, following with a last name plucked from the blue, or maybe, she thought, from the great outdoors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baby In My Arms]