Sentence examples for pick on things from inspiring English sources

Yet let's face it: when judging musicians, we pick on things like pitch and intonation not least because it's easy to do so -- literally as easy as A, B, C. We have standard vocabularies for such technicalities, and it's effortless to pick on high notes precisely because they're so hard to hit.

"People will pick on things and say, 'you can lose that' and a whole lot of other licence fee-payers will rightly say, 'that's of huge value'".

Remember, your "voices" can be subtle and pick on things that have some reality or are areas you are weak in.

Often, enemies will pick on things that they have anxiety about in their own life.

"They picked on things for which it's relatively easy because they've got a quota," Ms. Chegwidden said.

"I will not stand for anyone to pick on one thing," he said.

(Wales FGD 1) There are so many things that you have got to take into account like social circumstances, does he have someone in the house to keep an eye on him, do they have a whole load of other co-existing illnesses, um you know it's very difficult to pick on one thing, it's you trying to make a decision on a number of factors.

Pick one thing to splurge on.

Pick one thing to work on and put your best effort into that until it is accomplished.

The obsession with accountability has, the IPA says, actually prompted marketers to pick on single things that can be easily measured.

"When you see the kind of things that are allowed to go through on TV and in magazines, you wonder why people would pick on such minuscule things".