Sentence examples for pick up words from inspiring English sources

In summer, kids pick up words like "zoom" and "wow".

I am trying to pick up words, rhymes, lyrics and failing.

Printing scripts on colored paper is big because most copy machines can't pick up words on a dark background.

"We are more likely to pick up words than change accents as we find foreign words that fit much better and work better," said Oliver Mason, lecturer in English linguistics at Birmingham University.

As you make your way through the grammar and the pronunciation you will also pick up words, polish them, turn them over and over until they sit in your hand like smoothly polished stones.

Social media is a great place to pick up words and expressions that are in use, even though they're not in the dictionary.

His fastidious diction is unmistakable: he picks up words as if with sugar tongs – as if each syllable needed personal attention.

Alexa is very good at picking up words – but maybe not so good at picking up irony.

Ms. Willis recalled that some of her students were unable to speak English until they started picking up words in a script.

Searching through your notes is simple, thanks to text-recognition software that not only picks up words you have typed in, but even words that appear in saved photographs.

It is as if you had invented a camera that can take pictures only of red objects, or a microphone that picks up words only if they are spoken in French.