How To Use pick off In A Sentence
- Pests - pick off the red lily beetle and squash it before it chomps your lilies.
- It is relatively easy for newcomers to pick off the most lucrative business and ignore the rest.
- I crouched down on the bricks, and began to pick off the dead and dying leaves as I listened to the ever-present sound of suburban life in summertime: the drone of a distant lawnmower, the squeal of children playing in the pool across the street and tag in the backyard behind my house, and the music of birdsong all around my yard. In Exile
- Pick off the swollen growths and burn them, because these contain the fungal spores that spread the infection to nearby plants. The Sun
- Artillery salvos can be fired farther, and it seems that bit easier to pick off an advancing armor unit that has had its mobility reduced considerably as a result of the steepness of the slope.
- Archers were posted on the walls of the castle, easily able to pick off any enemies that wanted to try their luck at crossing the wide moat.
- Some wisearses in Vietnam, like Carlos Hathcock, started cobbing rifle scopes onto M2s, and using single shots to pick off enemy at 1,000 meter ranges. The Volokh Conspiracy » California Court of Appeal Upholds Ban on .50-Caliber Rifles Against Second Amendment Challenge:
- Confederate snipers took advantage of their positions atop Willis Hill to pick off the unlucky Federal troops concentrating at the edge of Fredericksburg.
- But he resolved to play straight and wait to pick off his overpitched straight balls.
- Ranging, as these fine birds will, over a mile or two of woods abounding in their wild brethren, convenient mistakes were often made by the pineland gunners, whose rifles were always ready to pick off a stray gobbler without waiting to know whether he was wild or tame, and so the old gentleman introduced the white stock to prevent the possibility of such errors. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876