Sentence examples for picked from inspiring English sources

And before that it is planted, picked, and ginned (or cleaned).

They had little else in common over the course of the match with a Hearts side who did them such severe harm as they picked up the trophy they also secured in 2006.

It would appear that the paper picked up the Mail Online story and, against normal internal rules, did not attribute it to Mail Online.

Bartmes, another Chicago attorney, said that in September 2013 she got a call from a mother worried that her 15-year-old son had been picked up by police before dawn.

The five cases already opened against individuals as a result of Garcia's investigation will presumably be picked up by an acting chairman who will be appointed by the executive committee at Thursday's meeting, most likely his deputy Cornel Borbély.

Some outside observers picked up on this peculiar form of pride – a kind of anti-nationalist nationalism – and gently mocked it: Timothy Garton Ash, for instance, spoke of Deutsche Industrie-Normen – a German industrial standard – in "coming to terms with the past"; others crowned the Germans "world champions in remembrance".

Salar Faez, the Iraqi Yazidi, sees little future for himself in Bulgaria, where he was picked up.