PICK in a Sentence

Learn PICK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
371 example sentences for PICK, such as:
1. Hawks will not pick hawk's eyes out.
2. He can really pick it at third base.
3. It was September and time to pick the cotton.
4. We had to pick our way along the muddy track.
5. Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PICK
pick
 n.  the act of choosing or selecting
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Only I always try to pick a day when Ethan's off somewheres.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  The carriage plowed its way farther and halted for a moment to permit two ladies with baskets of bandages on their arms to pick precarious passages across the sloppy street on stepping stones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  She raised her skirts and tried to pick her way among them toward a knot of men who were directing the stretcher bearers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Tears started from Mammy's eyes as she leaned down to pick up the buckets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Little did it matter though, to her or the Confederacy, now that all the field hands had run away and there was no one to pick the cotton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  Every morning he went out importantly with a basket to pick up twigs and chips to start the fires with.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  It was September and time to pick the cotton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  Melly can dress in rags and pick cotton and even help me murder a man but it doesn't change her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  There wasn't much need for a commissary, Miss Scarlett, because we couldn't hardly pick up a thing for the army, and I thought the place for an able-bodied man was in the fighting line.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  If they amounted to anything they'd have stayed where they were, instead of coming down here to pick our bones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  Perhaps the negroes were right and she did pick them up from the streets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
12  I've made money for you and I've earned my salary--and what I could pick up on the side, too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  And if you like jewelry, you can have it but I'm going to pick it out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
14  And then India will drive down and pick him up.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
15  Scarlett, I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
Example Sentence: (161 in 11 pages)
1  It's an absolutely instinctive reaction—if a child falls you pick it up.
2  Fire crews are hoping they can achieve full containment of the fire before the winds pick up.
3  The new Administration has to pick its way through the minefield of legislation.
4  So, pack your cycle clips and either pick up a brochure from your local travel agent or call us on freephone.
5  See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day.
6  He can really pick it at third base.
7  We had to pick our way along the muddy track.
8  Bring up a raven and he'll pick out your eyes.
9  Hawks will not pick hawk's eyes out.
10  Sometimes you just have to pick yourself up and carry on.
11  Just take any one of the cakes — you haven't got time to pick and choose.
12  You have to take any job you can get-you can't pick and choose.
13  Come on, you haven't got time to pick and choose.
14  I have no animosity against him, and he's clearly seeking to pick a quarrel with me.
15  I never hoot my horn when I pick a girl up for a date.