picking

How To Use picking In A Sentence

• People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
• In the sunlight, the steel surface comes alive with reflections, picking up the green of the surrounding grass.
• You know, a couple of weeks ago, I was charged with what they call a presidential decision, and that's picking a running mate. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush Campaign Holds Rally in Bartlett, Tennessee - August 18, 2000
• This was a sad day indeed for the big bad wolf of the banking world, and not just because it must forego those rich pickings it planned to cream off from two billion cash machine transactions a year.
• Erin Lyle, co-owner of Marty's Auto on Rathbone Avenue, told the Daily Herald "We have three houses right next to us and we've never had a noise or nuisance issue ... they're (city) not picking on tattoo parlors or grocery stores or anyone else. Archive 2009-04-01
• The dangers for girls were especially acute: “It is estimated that two-thirds of the girls who appear before the Court charged with immorality owe their misfortune to influences derived directly from the movies, either from the pictures themselves or in the ‘picking up’ of male acquaintances at the theatre!” A Renegade History of the United States
• In its third section, the piece lands into a melancholy return with a re-established tonic and some layered guitar/autoharp picking.
• While I'm not picking this title up unless Cass gets treated properly, I will say that the artist who made the teaser is very good. Who’s behind the mask this time? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
• Thereby, you will be able to navigate your way ahead, carefully picking your route around bloated wobbly people, inconsiderate ‘wallowers’ and arsey posers as they try to impress the girls.
• During an earlier scene of cooperative fruit picking with Cambodian and Laotian refugees, we are offered an opportunity to meditate on a pan-Asian Thailand of agrarian-pastoral well-being, and a move away from the tense border security of the 70s when refugees from Cambodia and Laos led Thailand to turn sharply to the right. Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL