How To Use Pick out In A Sentence

Gamers familiar with some tracks will easily be able to pick out certain landmarks or other features from their real-life counterparts.
We're going to Andreas's Boutique to pick out something original for both of us.
Let everie sound of a pitch keep still in reson-ance, jemcrow, jackdaw, prime and secund with their terce that whoe betwides them, now full theorbe, now dulcifair, and when we press of pedal (sof!) pick out and vowelise your name. Finnegans Wake
Each regional section has a brief introduction to set the scene and pick out distinctive geographical and topographical features.
Then pick out a little something from among the many high-style pre-match options still untaken at the time of writing. Times, Sunday Times

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Cushing, a first-round draft pick out of Southern California, was a runaway winner for the rookie award in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the league. AP: Texans' Brian Cushing tested positive for HCG
How can one pick out the symptoms of mental illness in patients who seem otherwise normal?
She was maid of honor at my wedding, gave me a bridal shower, helped me pick out my dress, etc.
The purpose of scanning a scene in this manner is to pick out details and their relations to one another (themes and rhemes).
We're going to Andreas's Boutique to pick out something original for both of us.
Let's pick out the bad potatoes from the basket.
Pick out and discard the bay leaves. Times, Sunday Times
It is dusk now; only the street lights pick out the low hills of the Cotswolds against an indigo sky. Times, Sunday Times
But common nitriles, such as hydrogen cyanide have masses more similar to nitrogen or methane, making them harder to pick out of the INMS results with only one night's study.
These pack-houses have machines which grade for size and conveyor lines where people pick out misshapen and damaged produce.
Could you help me to pick out the yellow pieces?
Furthermore, Brown says, real students in real classrooms are unlikely ever to see 60 percent of the curriculum, because most teachers simply pick out lessons and squeeze them in whenever possible.
For now, everybody will have to pick out little hints of romance with eagle eyes while I cackle in the background.
She is quite pleased with her knowledge about courts when she is able to pick out the jury, twelve animals and birds who are busy writing on their slates.
She could not pick out a single word from the speedy way the bright folk spoke, but she could guess what they meant by the way they were plucking at her harp and looking at her expectantly.
As he rose up through the branches of the Wonderful Tree he tore off one of the great twin fruits -- the magic double kernelled nuts that make people young, -- and the little girl-daughter saw it bobbing alongside the canoe, and pulled it in and began to pick out the soft eyes of it with her little golden scissors. Just So Stories
A spectrometer will measure the temperature of the atmosphere at various heights and pick out surface hot spots such as active volcanoes.
Internet chat rooms are used as an online version of focus groups that use data mining techniques to pick out certain key words or phrases.
It is dusk now; only the street lights pick out the low hills of the Cotswolds against an indigo sky. Times, Sunday Times
Carefully pick out any remaining bones from the fillets. Times, Sunday Times
The key to hosting a dandy destination wedding is to pick out a location that will bring your guests with a beautiful background as well as a wealth of activities to keep them entertained for at least a few days.
Pick out a dozen oranges for me.
We couldn't pick out any familiar landmarks.
Grimsby and her sister ships are specifically minehunters - instead of sweeping for devices, they use powerful sonar to pick out suspicious objects in deep and exposed waters and identify them.
Can't she pick out her own Zircon and hypo-allergenic steel?
Try and pick out the aspects of your background which make you especially suitable for the job you have applied for.
So many people have helped me with this book that it is hard to pick out the few for special mention.
The Dutch eats the pacific herring to open the mouth generally to the greatest degree, holds topping with the hand to pick out bone's fresh pacific herring to fill toward.
Now speedread the article and pick out something in the article relevant to your website. Undefined
Maybe they'll pick out four or five, then reconsign the rest.
Besides, anyone who wants to pick out a smaller set of moral theories that excludes this absurd theory may talk about evaluative consequentialism, which is the claim that moral rightness depends only on the value of the consequences. Consequentialism
Then he sent the woman to FAO Schwarz to pick out a teddy bear. HOPE TO DIE
Of all the beeps and bloops in your home, you're still likely able to pick out your telephone.
I could just pick out enormous square shapes on the seabed below, seemingly arranged in a regular pattern.
He uses a sidelight to pick out the ridges and hollows of a Calla lily.
We are forced to rely on necessary truths because truth values cannot pick out synonymous pairs - otherwise you fail to account for coextensive terms.
It was roughly man-shaped, but its head was a lumpish affair with no features that he could pick out, elven sight or no. A TIME OF WAR
I didn't even pick out a swimsuit because I planned on getting out of swimming somehow.
Pastore tries to pick out Di Maria with a pass, but puts too much welly on the ball. Argentina 1-0 Brazil - as it happened
Andrew can pick out a lovely melody but his harmonies often seem out (perhaps deliberately so) and he's better with melodies than he is with rhythms, for the moment.
It's one of the excellentest things about a Injun that he don't pick out no wife personal, deemin 'himse'f as too locoed to beat so difficult a game. Wolfville Nights
Words were difficult to pick out, muted by the thick metal door.
If you put this image into a stereo viewer, you can pick out the 3D atomic structure; for anything more complex than this, we need a different way to visualize what is going on.
In picking out nations with whom we would like to develop trade, not just a spluttery trade of a few years but a long and permanent and, if possible, a happy condition of trade, we want to pick out countries where the transport is easy and where there is a very great deal of difference between their conditions and ours. Canada's Relations With China
You will, however, learn to pick out fine-looking piece of neckwear from each basic style: contemporary, striped and solid.
When they are standing motionless on pebbles they are not at all easy to pick out. Times, Sunday Times
As the action began, I used a variety of longer focal lengths to pick out details over the next couple of hours. Times, Sunday Times
Pick out a smart, handy woman that can make butter yaller as gold, that'll bring gold, and not such limpsy-slimsy, ghostly-looking stuff as you've brought me. He Fell in Love with His Wife
Read the play again and pick out the major themes.
I can pick out a simple tune on the piano, but that's about it.
Could you help me to pick out the yellow pieces?
FRESH flowers suit any home - so pick out the perfect vase to make sure they look in full bloom in your house. The Sun
Kellys drawd his Tobo found it basely handled corrected him for it he promist to pick out the bad reckons upon 4 prisd hds came home Robert Carter Diary, 1726
Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.
She prefers lice-removal technician, which is what she calls her employees who pick out nits the pinhead-size white eggs that lice lay twice a day, four to five at a time and the critters that hatch from them at Gordon's LKY Salon - Lice Knowing You, natch - near Seattle. TIME.com: Top Stories
It was said he could pick out a noble from a peasant in a room, even if they were all dressed in the finest robes of state.
The pollarded plane trees are probably gone now, and the friendly old silver-painted street lamps have likely been replaced by concrete pillars topped with a safe sodium glare, but I reckon I could pick out the spot.
It was just possible to pick out the hut on the side of the mountain.
You can also use shaded wax to pick out details. Times, Sunday Times
On the periphery of her hearing Kate could pick out the strains of something by Enya. FALLEN WOMEN
Pick out one particular spot in that imaginary scene, and sketch me in it, with outstretched arms, curved back, and heels in the air, plunging headforemost into a black patch of water and mud. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
The contributors to this book subject these various options and their implication to critical appraisal, and it would be invidious to pick out some contributions and not others.
The climax of the film is a justly celebrated sequence in which the camera glides over a crowded dancefloor to pick out the true murderer.
Would I have the nerve to pick out a wig that was fun and frivolous, or would the illness sap my sense of humor?
We made a deal that he would pick out my dress and veil and shoes, and I would get to pick out his tux, which was a five-button white breakaway jacket, white pants, satin vest and ascot.
She tried to pick out the tune of a song she had heard on the radio.
Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.
Satisfied that his three navigators were in agreement, the pilot ordered the bombardier to pick out a mean point of impact, synchronize, and drop the bombs.
While the genes were active during maximum dedifferentiation activity, she said, so much is going on in cells after a newt's forelimb is cut off that it's difficult to pick out specific dedifferentiation genes. Cells That Go Back in Time
I remember how excited I was, nearly trembling, when we went to the gun shop run by the short man with black, horn-rimmed glasses and a noticeable limp to pick out my first handgun.
Try and pick out the aspects of your background which make you especially suitable for the job you have applied for.
Could you help me to pick out the yellow pieces?
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. Warren Buffett
Can you pick out the operatic arias quoted in this orchestral passage?
If you plan to ride the trails, bring tweezers to pick out thorns and a snake bite kit/compression bandage.
Let's pick out the bad potatoes from the basket.
Pick out a different shade with a bedcover and cushions.
You can pick out a range of subtle colours in the vegetation: the russet fronds of bracken, the fresh green stems of bilberry and the purple twigs of birch.
I pick out a simple outfit, a black, short-sleeved top and pants with a filmy, see-through skirt over that and a gem-studded silver belt to go around my hips and hold my bag of gems.
Pick out a dozen oranges for me.
At the age of three, she could already pick out a colour mistake in her uncle's tie.
Still moving slowly and patiently, frequently wiping rainwater from his protuberant eyes, he tried to pick out one lorqual that looked a little drowsier than the others. The Cat is a Metaphor
Then go outside and pick out an object, such as a large tree or building, on the distant horizon.
Other drivers reported that it was becoming very difficult to pick out the dry line between the darker damp patches. Times, Sunday Times
Coming down from the moors at Cropton you used to be able to pick out Norton high street, now all you can see is great big splodges of light.
I tend to pick out the one pound coins and the silver to buy my lunch the next day so generally it's just the coppers that are left.
But, you can still pick out a sexy patch to cover up the gaping hole in your head, which thank goodness was discovered after we dilated your eyes!
I use the term 'lubricate' because a recent study showed how researchers could pick out orgasmic women by simply watching them walk. Suzie Heumann: Enlightened Sex: Movement For Freeing Orgasm
The only details either of them could pick out was the enormous golden crown sitting on the cowled brow and the huge sword strapped to the side of the mount.
This equates to surveying an area the size of Plymouth while being able to pick out isolated features the size of a dustbin.
They looked at silent, deserted booths where newspapers and books had once been vended; an ancient bootery; a weapon shop (the gunslinger, with a sudden burst of excitement, saw revolvers and rifles; closer inspection showed that their barrels had been filled with lead; he did, however, pick out a bow, which he slung over his back, and a quiver of almost useless, badly weighted arrows); a women's apparel shop. The Gunslinger
Perhaps the words are anagrams like in the latest episode (s2e5 Dream Logic), where Olivia is asked to pick out letters of names on the business cards and then unscramble them. Solution to the Fringe Glyph Cipher
You can also use shaded wax to pick out details. Times, Sunday Times
Tesco's Finest wines - denoted only by a neck label and tiny letters on the capsule - are hard to pick out, but this gamey, earthy Gigondas is worth the search provided you drink it with big food.
Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.
The infrared scanners can pick out a concealed object on a person. Times, Sunday Times
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. Warren Buffett
We couldn't pick out any familiar landmarks.
Learning to pick out tunes on the mandolin is the easy part ... the difficulty comes from leaning proper techniques, timing, taste, and TONE. Mandolin Cafe News
Then we had to go and pick out presents for a baby shower and we decided that we would split the cost of the gifts.
Take a look through your favourite recipe websites or books together and pick out what you can make with your home-grown produce. The Sun
You'll see more colour and more vivid patterns than your eye is able to pick out. Times, Sunday Times
I have to pick out its meaning with the help of an English translation.
Try, therefore, to pick out the cases that are most apt for your argument, and rely on them.
So many people have helped me with this book that it is hard to pick out the few for special mention.
If there is only one thing I had to pick out, I think the most rewarding thing for me so far was watching those ring pictures come back after Saturn orbit insertion.
Knees bent and her head bobbing, Liadan's fingers fairly fly across the fingerboard as she bends her pick out of shape.
We had to pick out the winkles, rockfish and tiny crabs.
For example, he cites research suggesting that people with high levels of the feel-good neurochemical dopamine "are more likely to find significance in coincidences and pick out meaning and patterns where there are none. A Trick Of the Mind
A brambling en route to more temperate climes from its breeding grounds in the north flicks low over the grass, the long white flash on the rump making it easy to pick out. Country diary: South Uist
I pick out sleekit (sly) which I know from Burns, but most words: swick (cheat) swither (dither) and jouk (dodge) are new to me. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Up in the heights of the room, Bross could barely pick out the small windows that lined the apex of the ceiling.
So when I started twisting the fruit around to loosen the membrane and subsequently pick out the seeds, Joey started pointing at me and laughing.
There was one trick, however, that all of them enjoyedthe one where Aya would sail out into the audience, and pick out particularly impoverished-looking children, bringing one back to his bondmate. Widows and Orphans
He sent decorators to pick out carpet and paint schemes for a new training facility in Anaheim, Calif.
I've just given my new stylus a go and listened to this, for the first time in a while - call it nostalgia or sentiment, but it's hard to pick out one bad cut on this.
Pick out and discard the bay leaves. Times, Sunday Times
They had to stop to pick out thorns from their feet.
Vying for Feagles 'old spot are a pair of rookies, Matt Dodge, the team's seventh-round draft pick out of East Carolina, and Jy Bond, a former Australian Rules kicker. New York Giants Team Report
Fabric is the first thing you would pick out for a tailor-made suit, so why not do the same with your ready-to-wear suit?
Against a dark backdrop, invisible footlights pick out Paganini's lithe silhouette, sheathed in a formal black suit.
I have spoken to about a million retailers, who only sell them in packs of assorted colours and don't want to have to sit down and pick out all the purple ones.
To pick out fingerprints, for example, they often dust with fluorescent dye under a black light.
Carefully pick out any remaining bones from the fillets. Times, Sunday Times
These here's coky-nuts, as you knows very well; so let's pick out a good tree, and up you goes and gets some and throws 'em down. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle
The more knowledgeable spectators in the crowd were able to pick out each club runner by the colour of his vest, almost the athletic version of train-spotting.
You can pick out details now; the bright red flotation vests, the faces under the broad sunhats, the stickers that say ‘Cruiser’.
My dad occasionally used to make kedgeree as a Sunday treat – and, fussy, ungrateful child that I was, I'd go through it with a fine-pronged fork and pick out all traces of fish before wolfing down the buttery, delicately spiced rice. Felicity Cloake's comfort food
From an epistemological point of view, this makes our ability to pick out the extension of a term dependent on our knowledge of its intension. Walter Burley
Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.
From a deck of cards, pick out the ace through six of one suit.
Apollo, handing him a sack of unwinnowed wheat, bade him pick out _all the chaff _for his reward. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5
FRESH flowers suit any home - so pick out the perfect vase to make sure they look in full bloom in your house. The Sun
So you pick out one and follow him back to the cash register.
Carefully pick out any remaining bones from the fillets. Times, Sunday Times
Usually, the maid of honor has to wear a dress that the bride will typically pick out for her – will select for her.
My Mr. told me that the key to pidgin is to pick out the English words and try to make sense of them. My First Love
Could you help me to pick out the yellow pieces?
He could vaguely pick out a humanoid figure in the bright light.
But now the problem is that I have to watch the video that was recorded of me, and pick out one spot to show my tutor.
In discussing some general problem in nature he always knows how to pick out a typical concrete physical problem and to give it a clear mathematical formulation.
Then I asked them each to pick out one painting that he or she couldn't stand and tell me what it was about the picture that repelled or repulsed him or her.
You can crack a pecan by holding two of them together in the palm of your hand and squeezing until one of them breaks, and then you can pick out the nutmeat; you can easily get a quart of nutmeats in an evening of watching TV. Creole Tea Cakes
Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.
General opinion now seems to be that it entered the language too early for that -- and an English etymology is preferred: fiver: a five pound (sterling) note (or "bill"); fossick: pick out gold, in a fairly desultory fashion. The Rising of the Court
It will pick out one bird from a flock and give chase, indifferent to the calls and mobbing flights of other birds.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. Warren Buffett
The Royal Mail was this morning searching all post to pick out voting papers, to be delivered in special drops or collected by town hall staff.
Towards evening it became possible to stop; not simply physically, but actually and not feel it a waste of time; to think it worthwhile to pick out a vantage and from it watch the land beneath change under the passing clouds.
She tried to pick out the tune of a song she had heard on the radio.
We went to some dress shop to pick out a navy, simply cut blue dress and a pair of clunky sandals.
Using some fairly sophisticated mathematics, you can program the computer to pick out in that array things like straight lines and nicely shaped curves.
If the necessity of the past is the non-causability of the past, it seems a bit odd to pick out the class of propositions about the past as having an allegedly distinct kind of necessity since some of the future has that same kind of necessity. Foreknowledge and Free Will
Pick out any small bones left in the salmon with tweezers.
Pip quickly led the way over to the brightly colored silks and linens, then had Sonia pick out the fabric for her clothes.
The infrared scanners can pick out a concealed object on a person. Times, Sunday Times
You'd think they would be wise and paint their boats, but they pick out the worst old tubs for their rum ships.
Let the creative juices flow when you pick out your props; I call dibs on the unicorn horn.
Half an hour later, with the sun now rising over the desert, you began to be able to pick out the monks themselves, black-bearded, black-robed, hooded and cowled in their stalls.
When one in four girls admits to an incipient eating disorder, how do you pick out the ones who are in danger of a full-blown psychiatric complex?
The ability to pick out one's adult friend from a group photograph taken in his youth seems an unremarkable task and yet requires remarkable powers of discernment.
You'll see more colour and more vivid patterns than your eye is able to pick out. Times, Sunday Times
Pick out and discard the bay leaves. Times, Sunday Times
Other drivers reported that it was becoming very difficult to pick out the dry line between the darker damp patches. Times, Sunday Times
Encourage children to pick out their own clothes, to decorate their own rooms, and to choose their own activities.
Those who do not have a problem will be able to pick out certain numbers or shapes from within the dot patterns.
You'll see more colour and more vivid patterns than your eye is able to pick out. Times, Sunday Times
He let her pick out his tuxedo with a cummerbund and tie to match her dress.
Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.
On a clear day the rays of the summer sun pick out gems of iridescent blues and greens that are the creepy-crawlies, beetles and bugs among the bushes and wild flowers in my garden. Country diary: East Yorkshire
Can you pick out the three deliberate mistakes in this paragraph?
Twice she got caught in the reeds and had to back off and pick out a new angle of approach.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. Warren Buffett
Our headlights started to pick out game - a kudu, an eland bull, and a warthog that scurried across our bows when it shouldn't have.
I'd pick out those I thought would be the exuberant huggers, the proper handshakers or the ones who never touch at all.
Xrays easily pick out surgical tools and hard tissues such as bones.
They cannot have been hard to pick out on the gangplank. Spitfire Women of World War II
The Government is also reported to be considering charging householders for the amount of unsorted waste they produce in a bid to encourage them to pick out recyclable items, such as tins, glass, cardboard and paper.
It is hard to pick out one man who overawes the others. The Chimes at Midnight
She was able to pick out her father at the other side of the room.
the brick maker treadles over clay to pick out the stones
From a deck of cards, pick out the ace through six of one suit.
Then pick out a little something from among the many high-style pre-match options still untaken at the time of writing. Times, Sunday Times
On top of my hearing impediment I find I can't pick out individual conversations in crowds.
I'm trying to be honest; It's difficult to pick out my likes and dislikes from a movie like thisbecause there isn't much to really stab at. Hell Ride Review
She wanted to spend time with Jason but she didn't want to be the clingy girlfriend so she decided to go help Mariana pick out the music.
Surveys pick out contentious conclusions on divine unity and Trinity and Incarnation and other topoi, abstracted from the original warp and weft, as though the latter were mere packaging.
All the patent holder has to do is make a cross and pick out the best segregant and propagate it asexually and they can patent. Court Rejects Gene Patent - The Panda's Thumb
Then pick out something close - a discoloration in the grass, a bush, an old divot - that's on the line of the shaft.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. Warren Buffett
Try to pick out the googly-eyed CPAs on the street who will be all hopped up on Red Bull and crystal meth for the next day and a half.
At first, the sound is just a dull roar, but then after a while you pick out patterns in the ticking, as the metronomes go in and out of phase with each other.
This uses electronic sensors and big data software to pick out the smallest of airborne objects. Times, Sunday Times
When he'd first owed us money we'd go there and pick out a book or an old coffee pot from his stock and he'd say take it, cadeau. WHITE LIES
bible study and theological reflection are far too important to be left to the yokels who pick out a text and tell you what it means, with no sense of context, audience, history, continuity, etc., etc have you ever seen a real TEXT of the NT, in "uncial"? Christianity Today does Q&A with Francis Collins on faith and science | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com

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