Sentence examples for a pick on from inspiring English sources

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"a pick on" is not a correct and usable phrase in written English.
If you want to indicate a situation in which someone is ridiculed or bullied, you can use the phrase "picked on." For example: The new student was often picked on by her classmates.

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Just before halftime, Rice waited for defensive tackle Anthony McFarland to clear a path by setting a pick on Rams left tackle Orlando Pace.

The senior forward slipped outside for a 3-pointer, snaked inside for a rebound and putback, then split a pick on the perimeter to make another 3-point shot.

If it wasn't for running into a pick on Miami's final possession, Fordham might have stopped Salmons from connecting on a driving runner to send the game into overtime.

But for journalists, who tell their friends they work in cycling or movies or computer games, the removal of this fig-leaf to reveal just another elf swinging a pick on the slopes of Mount Content is a bit of a reverse.

Things have turned around so much in Oakland that when the Raiders traded up in the fourth-round to pick Connor Cook last weekend, they were given the benefit of the doubt instead of being roasted by pundits for wasting a pick on a position Carr has locked down for the next decade.

Cook (left) drives to the basket as Silbermann (center) sets a pick on Kevin Rose (right).

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He's a faggot, pick on him.

"It's far safer for a politician to pick on some foreign bank than it is to pick on Citigroup".

It hardly sounds like an attempt to pick on "pro-choice" organizations.

The point is that the researchers did not just pick on a random constant.

My favorite float in the comment parade: "As a more lighthearted aside: why pick on disco?

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