pick - use in sentences

Object

  • winner: The studio audience then votes on the best two to pick a winner.
  • blackberry: These trips include picking blackberries to make jam which is then sent home to mom and dad in Yorkshire.
  • fight: A chastened America is unlikely to pick a fight on that right now.
  • ball: In both cases, the free kick should be taken from the spot where the goalkeeper touched or picked the ball up.
  • oakum: Picking oakum was separating threads out of disused ropes.
  • keywords: Choose Your Keywords As I mentioned earlier, it is important to pick good keywords.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • up: The speakers also seemed to find a way of picking up Forth FM whilst the lecturer was trying to speak.
  • out: Despite being picked out by a witness, the man was freed.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • up: Council tax payers have been picking up the tab for too long.
  • out: Micky then picked out the big West Indian at deep square leg.

Used with why or when

  • which: First you need to pick which pet you'd like to help.

Particle object: up_obj

  • tab: Council tax payers have been picking up the tab for too long.
  • bargain: And visitors to the shop can also spot a celebrity or two as well as pick up a bargain.
  • wicket: Chester batted first but were soon in trouble as Jamie Hackett picked up three early wickets.
  • phone: She picks up the phone, dials, lets it ring twice, then hangs up quickly.
  • pace: This series Phyl and Bev pick up the pace in regards to their antics รข they really push the boundaries.
  • leaflet: Pick up a leaflet from the Welcome Desk for more information.

Preposition: of

  • bowler: Dave Nelson the pick of the bowlers taking 5 - 39.
  • bunch: However the 17th on the Lakes is perhaps the pick of the bunch.

Noun used with modifier

  • litter: Litter pick in a various parts of the village.

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