Sentence examples for figures picked from inspiring English sources

A few figures picked among the debris like vultures, while others huddled in small dazed groups at the sides.

They should not be, as they are now, arbitrary figures picked to make the most money out of unsuspecting customers".

Most of the candidates were old-guard figures picked to run before energised prosecutors backed by a mass anti-corruption movement toppled Pérez Molina's administration.

Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers, strategists and party figures picked sides: either with McConnell, who kept his distance from Moore's campaign, or with former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, who was among Moore's most ardent backers.

David Kern, the chief economist of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "It is welcome news to see that manufacturing and total industrial production figures picked up in August after the disappointing declines recorded in July.

Midfielder Clarke, one of Cavan's key figures, picked up a second booking less than two minutes into the second half, and they faced an uphill task with 14 men.

From the window we could see crouching figures picking crops, peering, washing, waving.

In it, tiny human figures pick their way through a scene of utter desolation in which the road has been almost obliterated.

Two figures picking their way carefully alongside the ditch, bulging plastic bags in either hand, give a clue to where some of this business is coming from.

"I'M sad that you see Argentina like this," Pola Oloixarac, my new Argentine friend, said one night in November 2003 as we passed a cluster of figures picking through heaps of garbage bags on the otherwise deserted streets downtown.

A telephone rings and these various figures pick it up, reflecting not on what they've seen on the battlefields but what they're missing back home: a father's hug, a mother's song, a child's birth.