English example sentences with "picked"

Learn how to use picked in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

The committee picked the site for the exhibition.

If he had not picked me up, I would not be here now.

I picked up some French.

The bus picked up the speed gradually.

I don't know how, but I just picked it up naturally.

My father picked up the tab for dinner, which came to $150.

The taxi picked up two passengers.

The child picked up a small stone.

The express train picked up speed gradually.

Then they picked dandelions and put them in their ears.

Sue picked up a pencil off the floor.

First John put on his coat, and then he picked up his hat.

John picked a quarrel with college kids near him at the bar.

Tom picked up some pretty shells on the beach.

Jay picked up the old scissors.

My grandma stooped down and picked up a needle and thread.

The worried housewife heard the telephone ring and quickly picked up the receiver.

I would like to see the trees from which you picked these apples.

I picked a most unfortunate time to visit him.

I'm being picked up.

I picked up a key I found on the way today.

My brother had his pocket picked in the train.

My pocket was picked.

I picked up a purse in the street.

I picked out a new hat at the store.

We picked apples so as to make a pie.

We picked flowers in the garden.

His hand was trembling as he picked up his pen to sign.

A woman picked my pocket in the crowd.

I had my pocket picked in the train.

I had my pocket picked on the train.

Just one part of what he said got picked up by the media and took on a life of its own.

He picked a fight with me.

He picked out the best book.

He bent down and picked up the ball.

He picked up the book.

He picked it up carefully.

He picked up the rifle and aimed it at the target.

He picked up the ash-tray.

He picked up the wrong hat by mistake.

He picked me up on his way home.

He picked up a mirror and examined his tongue.

As soon as he sat down, he picked up the telephone.

He picked up the phone.

He picked out some important idioms.

He picked up a handkerchief from the floor.

He picked up the newspaper and glanced casually over the front page.

He picked up a butterfly between his thumb and forefinger.

He had his pocket picked in the crowd.

He picked up a stone.

He picked up a red stone.

He was picked up by a passing ship.

He picked up something white on the street.

He picked up cans in the street.

He picked flowers for her.

He picked up a hat and put it on to see how it would look.

They studied it a little bit, but they couldn't spend all day finding out what to do, so they finally picked up the other one, and the water went out again, all over the floor.

They are picked soldiers.

After she picked up the first glass and water went all over the place, she called the boss out.

She picked up a stone.

She picked out three beautiful apples.

She picked up one of the glass vases.

She picked up beautiful stones.

She picked up a coin.

She picked out the shoes that match the dress.

She picked out the best of all the jewels in the shop.

She picked out a pink shirt for me to try on.

She picked out the most expensive dress.

She picked flowers.

She picked me an apple.

She watched the harvest gathered and the apples picked.

She bent down and picked up the coin.

She picked flowers in the garden.

She picked a lot of beautiful flowers.

Father had his wallet picked in the bus.

My mother stopped her sewing and picked up her book.

I had my pocket picked in the bus.

I've already picked out the CD I'm going to buy next.

I should like to see the trees from which you picked these apples.

While we were out for a picnic, our house's lock was picked by a thief.

I've just picked up a fault in the line.

He picked up a mirror and looked at his tongue.

I picked up a pretty shell at the seaside.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Surrounded by hordes of vampires, Christopher Columbus once had an epic sword duel with Count Dracula in the latter's castle. After the Count cut off Columbus's hand, Columbus calmly picked it up, put it back in place, and proceeded to best the Count.

The sniper picked off his victims one by one.

"I see," said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw.

The bird picked up the twig with its beak and flew to its nest.

His mother picked him up.

My parents picked me up from school.

We've only picked off ripe fruit.

We picked the number at random.

Once you've picked up a stone that you like, take it home as soon as you can and treat it well, because that's the only stone you've got.

I bet you'd never heard of a Stroh violin before Tom Waits dug it back up! Anyway, it used a large metal horn as its resonator instead of a wooden box so it could be picked up better by recording equipment before the late 1920s.

He and his grandmother played a few games of Crazy Eights until his mother picked him up.

I picked up some French here and there.

The oldest woman in the village was the one who picked his name at birth.

She picked him up at the station.

Tom picked up the coins that had fallen behind the sofa.

Tom picked up that habit from his father.

Tom picked up a stone and threw it at Mary.

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