pickings

How To Use pickings In A Sentence

• 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.
• For years they had been pillaging the various shops that had occupied the Tea Rooms and hoped for a few more pickings.
• Attracted by his free market policies and the rich pickings to be made from privatised industries, foreign capital poured into the country.
• They have been ripe for the pickings of a media that for the past two decades has successfully parlayed gossip, innuendo, rumor, half-truths and outright lies into a hugely profitable growth industry. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Dumping on The Obamas
• If you want value for money and functionality, though, activewear labels still offer the richest hoodie pickings. Times, Sunday Times
• I ended up paying $9 for for my small pickings from the buffet. The “Man Bar” at City 75 | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
• The street-sellers are lured to the town by the rich/easy pickings that are to be had from foreign tourists.
• With the soaring temperatures, people are going to bed and forgetting to secure their homes, providing rich pickings for thieves.
• the pickings were easy
• It did not take him long to realise that much of the system of locum recruitment and payment was infected by barely controlled chaos and promised the dishonest rich pickings.