Sentence examples for is picked off from inspiring English sources
verb
To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
A huge play, Kaepernick is picked off!
Adams presses straight away but is picked off with sharp left-right.
Eventually the lad is picked off by his father's fundamentalist enemies and indoctrinated to the edge of no return.
Yet again the Lions apply a revolver to their own right boot, as Matthew Stafford's pass for Kris Durham is picked off by Tramon Williams.
"We strive to make all of our fruit and berry wines taste just like the fruit that is picked off the vine, bush, tree or shrub," Mr. Amabile says.
8th over: West Indies 20-1 (Joseph 12, Sarwan 3) Not such a good over that from Harmison, who is picked off like a grape at a French winery.
Old age is picking off the former paratroopers.
A network of violent radicals is picking off the world's leaders one by one.
"I am always enjoying when the other team is picking off the other quarterback," Brady said.
The whole point of magazines is picking off and catering for particular niches".
The government is picking off [financial services firms] institution by institution," Hoang said.
