Sentence examples for not only picking from inspiring English sources

One of the things that I am mindful of is not only picking people, but building a team.

It was a long tradition of chief executives not only picking their successors but also being guaranteed a role on the board.

The Giants, meanwhile, were not only picking apart the Vikings' defense, ranked 28th in the league this season, but they were also catching breaks.

In one purposeful stroll around the periphery of the store, he was not only picking through kielbasa and mussels but also good-naturedly handling the polite interruptions of fans.

Potentially, it could advance on a frontier challenge of industrial robotics—not only picking a wallet out of a bin but riffling through it and pulling out a credit card.

If you're a football fan, the collection of billionaires and their federally protected cartel present the American faithful with so many ethical dilemmas that even DirectTV's Sunday Ticket satellite package – not only picking a game from the TV guide, but simply the act of paying for it – can send you through a vaguely Augustinian self-recrimination.

Our children not only pick up on this fraught dynamic; they re-enact it.

Siblings not only pick up the slack but also act as decoys, providing crucial distraction.

Maisie not only picks out her outfit, but she then styles Georgia.

In essence, the worst teams not only pick before the best teams, but also have more money to spend.

'Now they have not only picked up in the Champions League, they are clear at the top of their domestic championship.