Sentence examples for job picked from inspiring English sources

Some years ago, a young tractor-trailer driver, new in his job, picked up a load in Minnesota bound for New York City.

The first outing of Channel 4's much-hyped new gameshow The Bank Job picked up 1 million viewers and a 4.8% share at 10pm.

At first glance, the Cornell study -- which launched a thousand knowing conversations around dinner tables and water coolers -- seems merely to prove what anyone who has held a job, picked up a prescription or indeed ever left his or her apartment has known for a long time.

From the first page, the reader is invited into the disconsolate world of Augustus McKnight, a sales representative at a paper products company, unhappy in his job, picked on by a vindictive boss and going home to an unhappy marriage in which he suspects his wife of infidelity.

After their emotional conversation, Windy's mother, Marie Noel, left her job, picked up her children and rented a little house in Kenscoff, a neighborhood in the mountains overlooking Port-au Prince, where a friend had found her a job as a cleaning lady.

They also did a solid job picking up blitzes and zone exchange pass rushes.

This summer, he has a part-time job picking up litter at Rockaway Beach.

When my mother died I was lonely & took a job picking cotton.

"He and his agent did a good job picking the teams.

"She did a great job picking something that I love that I would have never chosen," Courtney said.

He began paying her to paint, so that she could quit her day job, pick up the pace, and build the myth.