Sentence examples for about to pick from inspiring English sources

I wasn't about to pick up a book and read.

But there are signs that things are finally about to pick up.

Grimley licked his lips like a vulture about to pick its victims bones.

Some of them think wage growth is about to pick up; some of them don't.

She was about to pick up dinner when the phone rang.

At one point, he knocked away Jacob Voracek's fallen glove as Voracek was about to pick it off the ice.

With growth in China slowing sharply, consumers there are not about to pick up the slack from the Americans.

For someone about to pick two up at the store, I didn't even know what a bat stretcher looked like.

"My wife is about to pick me up in a few minutes, and we might get killed out there.

Some 60% of the region's banking assets are in foreign hands.There is little sign that the pace of change in Europe is suddenly about to pick up.

In the past, there have been few people to consult about whom to pick.