Sentence examples for expression picking from inspiring English sources

On this analysis, 'water' just is an implicitly indexical expression, picking out different chemical kinds depending on which world constitutes the actual context of use.

If I refer to "10 Downing Street", my expression picks out the built structure, not the plan, nor any other abstract representation or entity to which the built structure at 10 Downing Street corresponds.

The basic idea behind possible world semantics is to map out such differences in meaning by specifying what an expression picks out relative to every possible way the world could be (every "possible world").

This is what it feels like to have your purest expression picked apart by a thousand angry beaks.

He always practised reading his sermons, and, as Davis claims, "he would (in his own expression) pick up the lines, and cheat his people, by making them believe he had it all by heart".

The evolved regular expression picks up significantly more (χ, 3 dof) (448 v. 209) poorly performing probes on the test set than the human produced regular expression.

I recently came upon the expression "pick up your life" in a talk given by John Morton, the spiritual director of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.

And they're gorgeous things – highly tuneable by you, you design the expression, you pick the accessories.

To select the partners, Marcus says Facebook employees starting testing creative expression apps, picked their favorites, and reached out.

Protein spots representing greater than twofold alteration in expression were picked using an Ettan Spot Picker (GE Healthcare Biosciences).

Jamal tells me that the first German expression he picked up was "shit" and the second was "How are you?".