Sentence examples for handpicking from inspiring English sources
The word "handpicking" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the act of carefully selecting something or someone without relying on a random process. For example, "My professor is handpicking students for an exclusive research project."
verb
Present participle of handpick
In some ways, Mr Kozlowski's team applied real discipline, handpicking thousands of firms to build strong market positions in dull and fragmented, but fast-growing businesses, chiefly medical equipment, plastics, fire and security systems and electronic components.
Providers are handpicking borrowers with a squeaky-clean credit record, offering them the advertised top rates and leaving the rest to tackle higher rates or rejection altogether.
Handpicking also produces considerably cleaner cotton; mechanical harvesters pick the bolls by suction, accumulating loose material, dust, and dirt, and cannot distinguish between good and discoloured cotton.
There will be a bottom tier in every class, and early admissions is a way of handpicking it, making sure of getting students who really want to attend, and who satisfy one or another institutional need as well.
Now she spends her days handpicking wines and discussing the fine art of cheese with Lou DiPalo, "the cheese king of Little Italy," who selects the restaurant's cheeses.
Appraisers and real estate brokers agreed that a ban, imposed since the housing crash, on loan originators' handpicking appraisers had led to the use of appraisal management companies that take a healthy cut of the consumer's fee and hire inexperienced, low-cost appraisers.
Take some time to chill with nourishing Goan fare: juices, handpicked tulsi tea and unforgettable papaya jam.
But Lampitt was handpicked by Ukip headquarters to represent the views of working-class people in the UK, and it appears no checks were made to examine his wider opinions.
When Farage raised the issue during the debate, presenter David Dimbleby said those attending had been handpicked by an independent polling company.
There seems no end to Angela Merkel's troubles: first the Euro crisis and then the completely unexpected resignation of the president, Horst Köhler, a former International Monetary Fund (IMF) official who had been handpicked by the German chancellor in 2004 and who had been expected to play an important role in justifying the belt-tightening in the wake of the financial crisis.
The former NSW premier was handpicked by the former prime minister Julia Gillard to replace the outgoing senator Mark Arbib when he resigned abruptly in February 2012.
