Sentence examples for knack for picking up from inspiring English sources

Like Mr. Boyle, he had a knack for picking up scientific knowledge and using it to make his case.

Inside a brightly decorated lab at the University of California, Berkeley, an ordinary-looking robot has developed an exceptional knack for picking up awkward and unusual objects.

Getting my equipment out of the basement was always worrisome: a cute surfer housemate with a knack for picking up girls slept down there on a double mattress.

Mr. Weisberger had a knack for picking up foreign languages, and on this basis he was offered work by other faculty members who were similarly provided with federal funding.

We have a knack for picking up on things and getting a feel for different people and their personalities very quickly.

And, they are extremely perceptive with a knack for picking up on a person's feelings and emotions to the point of knowing what they are thinking before they have opened their mouth.

Even back then, Bianco had a special knack and an ear for picking up the different tones and styles of the person singing on those records.

The timetable for picking up your boat.

And even Trevor Benjamin, once you've finished discussing how many clubs he has played for (16), has a happy knack of picking up goals.

"Charles had this knack of picking up these amazingly straight women — stewardesses and secretaries," Shepard said, in Don Shewey's rich 1985 biography.

He is far better when closer to the opposition goal and has a knack of picking up goalscoring positions that Grealish can't come close to.