Sentence examples for around to pick from inspiring English sources

The phrase "around to pick" is not a complete or standard expression in written English, but it can be part of a larger phrase.
It can be used when referring to someone coming by to collect or gather something, often in a casual context.
Example: "I'll be around to pick up the package later this afternoon."
Alternatives: "stop by to collect" or "come by to get".

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Then you turn around to pick up the old course and it has been snatched up, too.

He turned around to pick her up, but "she just brushed herself right off and kept on running," he said.

"At the end of the first solo, there's a jump that you do and run forward before you turn around to pick up the lute," Mr. Finlay said.

Among blocks/ of concrete and rusting iron/ there's a fig tree with heavy fruit/ but even kids don't come around to pick it".

His connections may be hoping for a pace meltdown, given that the speedy Diversify and Mendelssohn are both entered here; this closer may stick around to pick up the pieces if those two duel each other into exhaustion, but his odds tell the story: this would be a major, major upset.

When your heart has been ripped from your chest, a good friend is around to pick it up for you and help you get the tiny bits of gravel out of it.

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It's just being stored in Hollywood until he gets around to picking it up".

"By the time they got around to picking a lender it was too late and those rates were gone".

Before Mr. Sivak could get around to picking out a new dresser and side table, however, he stumbled upon a better solution to his decorating problem.

"So my aunt on the West Coast gets the gift online right on Christmas and she feels happy -- even though I didn't actually get around to picking it out until the day before Christmas," Mr. Kerret said.

Calling Old Friends Regularly I'd like to be better at keeping in touch, but the friendships that are meant to last always fall right back into place when one of us gets around to picking up the phone.

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