Sentence examples for get picked in from inspiring English sources
This week on The New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Peter Hessler explains how not to get picked in a police lineup, and James Wood and Richard Brody consider the literature and cinema of the Holocaust, from Laurent Binet's "HHhH" to Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah".
Ideally, Maya Yoshida would have enjoyed more playing time at Southampton this season, and a young J-League centre-back would have broken through to take the place of the utility man Yasuyuki Konno – who doesn't even get picked in defence for a notoriously porous Gamba Osaka.
"To get picked in teams is about the volume of runs and how you scored them," he said.
"If I get picked in the squad, then I'm a squad player so, if the centre or wing spot needs to be filled because of injuries, then I'm happy to do that.
The film shows this in a dramatic, heart-wrenching detail by following a handful of kids who are desperately vying to get picked in a lottery to attend better schools.
A little bit later, the fright was whether or not I would get picked in the neighborhood basketball game, and a little bit after that it was which girl I should ask to the school dance.
"When the pumpkin patch gets picked in Hopatcong, that's a news story," said Mr. Janiszewski.
He got picked in the 50 but came a bit late for World Cup selection probably; I think the die had probably been cast with the other guys.
The book ends on an improbable up-beat: Henry gets picked in the thirty-third round of the draft; Schwartz takes the job; Pella comes out of her funk.
But it was a good learning experience for me, because it taught me to stick to my strengths and helped me to understand that the reasons I got picked in the first place were what I had to focus on.
