Sentence examples for it picked out from inspiring English sources

Allison had kept the pig in her lap throughout the meal, feeding it from her plate, and afterward, while we sat around the living room cradling brandies and Bénédictine, she propped the thing up at the piano, where it picked out "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" with its modified hooves.

It was a tearful light, and as it picked out the empty street and the long file of Christmas trees, he wanted to cry.

It picked out an example — the way Major had exposed "a dreadful piece of doublespeak from Tony Blair," then the Labour Party's employment spokesman.

Glowing humanoid shapes drift across your field of vision, a dog barks and then you see it – or the shape of it – picked out from the darkness by spots of luminance.

It picked out the detention of children and the length of time taken to decide on asylum applications.South Korea's parliament voted to reject the country's first female prime minister, Chang Sang, who was nominated by the president, Kim Dae Jung, in a cabinet shuffle on July 11th.

MacKenzie, though puzzled by his paper alone being subject to immediate boycott (which has held fast for 23 years), tentatively offers a possible political reason: "Was it picked out because the paper had always backed Thatcher, while the city had always been pro-Labour?" I just don't think that argument stands up.

They have these women who go over it, picking out all the pieces of wire by hand".

It picks out Corn Hill, at the north side of the beach, and daubs the tiny cottages at its crest in sure, vibrant strokes.

It picks out an object (my dog, Zermela).

Because this is a purely negative notion, it picks out no additional property in reality.

A term is non-rigid when it picks out different objects in different possible worlds.