Sentence examples for attempts to pick from inspiring English sources

There's not much to the show beyond Stuart's ghastly attempts to pick up women.

But these entirely ad hoc attempts to pick holes in one or another analysis fail on three counts.

Because of a mixture of ineptitude and crudeness, their attempts to pick up girls are usually disastrous.

It is also undoubtedly down to the judges' attempts to pick, as chair Stella Rimington put it, "readable" books.

Johnson was doing his part while his teammates continued their desperate attempts to pick Colorado's strongbox in goal, Patrick Roy.

He attends a matinee of the film "Platoon," and unsuccessfully attempts to pick up a woman in the audience.

The pitcher attempting to pick off a runner must be careful not to commit a "balk".

As the nerds scattered, some veterans of Occupy Wall Street attempted to pick up the slack.

Then, after Russell Martin grounded out, Shields attempted to pick off Cano.

But there is also a danger that they will once again attempt to pick winners.

But I don't want to attempt to pick Eddie Jones's team for him.