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Picking in sentence

483 examples of Picking in a sentence

I remember, at the age of 14, when I jumped into an ocean for the first time for a swim, and throughout this swim, the waves were picking me up and throwing me down, I saw the child in me, who enjoys such adventures.
And even sort of horrible things, like picking beans by hand, can now be done automatically.
This business, it gets to be addictive, you know what I mean, when somebody else is picking up the tab.
And your brain is very good at picking up those subtle differences from other people's outward voices.
But that summer, they were only picking up that Cherif was buying fake trainers from China, so it signaled a shift away from extremism into what was considered a low-level petty crime.
And that job is that they go around and pick up syringes from the back of hospitals, wash them, and in the course of this, obviously picking them up they injure themselves.
Even the business programs have started picking up on this.
In this case, it's very intuitive; this student, probably his first time using it, is doing very complex manipulation tasks, picking up objects and doing manipulation, just like that.
Well, chances are I've got a droid who's picking up the phone, "Yes, they called, and they said they didn't like it."
You start to think about all the crap that you have to do at work and you have that mountain of email which you will never dig yourself out of ever, the phone calls you have to return, and that important meeting across town, and you're going to have to fight traffic, you'll be late picking your kids up, your dog is sick, and what are you going to make for dinner?
Start by picking up one piece of trash on your block.
Coming in closer, picking up Earth, orbit of the Moon, and we see the Earth.
It can be learning to cook a new dish, picking up an instrument you forgot as a child.
And after a couple of hours, they start picking up the signal, because the Soviets made Sputnik very easy to track; it was right at 20 MHz, so you could pick it up really easily, because they were afraid people would think it was a hoax, basically, so they made it really easy to find.
I wanted to see more, especially after a very good sleeping bag scene where I thought the movie was picking up and going to be a winner.
But picking material like this drivel will only denigrate Howell's career even more - if that was possible.
After an unexplained argument between two guys picking up litter in a drive-in movie theatre we cut to a family leaving!
Well, it's about 102 minutes of lesbianism, women picking and shoveling in the hot sun for no apparent reason, and just about as much sleaze as you can stand and maybe then some.
He hears a weird sound through his headphones, proving that his radio is picking up a station in Jamaica.
It is by comparison amateur looking, aimless pans left and right across the desert the kind of which you would expect from any German tourist equipped with a handycam, the camera left running from the window of a car picking up all kinds of meaningless images, wire fences, derelict buildings and patches of dirt going through the lens in haphazard order, intercut with shots of sand dunes.
In all seriousness it was quite a laugh picking holes in it and laughing at the goofy actors.
I don't think casting did all that great a job on picking the Chowder Society members either.
Other then picking a psychopath to show as a victim.
If you want to start picking on things like the acting, the special effects, the dialogue, or the absence of a coherent plot that makes even the slightest amount of sense, you'll have plenty of material.
Another picking point I had with the movie was the lack of a realistic story of events that would make you grow to connect to a character.
This is one of the most awful movies I've had the misfortune of picking up.
To some of us, director Ernst Lubitsch, adored for his underlying cheekiness and ironic comic touches, was rather wet when it came to picking material.
I myself found that question looming in my mind as the hour and twenty minute feature seemed to drag near the middle, only to give off the sensation that it was picking up steam at the end, when in actuality it was doing nothing of the sort.
As soon as TV affiliates stop picking this up in syndication we can finally be rid of this absolute garbage.
Picking this up along with the rest of the Marx Brothers box set, I found myself disappointed by most everything beyond A Night at the Opera.
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