Sentence examples for picked almost from inspiring English sources

The phrase "picked almost" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe an almost completed action, or a nearly achieved result. Example: She picked almost all of the flowers in the garden, except for a few that were still blooming.

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This never seemed to be a problem before, because the two funds he had picked, almost randomly, kept going up.

Cromartie picked almost 10, but one in particular, rapped by Lil Wayne, seemed to reflect the Jets' confidence in him, which is greater than ever.

We passed a herd of red deer and some aurochs wannabes, and the carcass of a deer, which had been picked almost clean by foxes and ravens.

When Peterson and Art Howe were in Oakland, the club picked almost exclusively college players, including pitchers Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder and Barry Zito.

Microbes are picked almost at random from the wild (one successful antibiotic, for example, began with a sample collected on Easter Island), then grown in laboratory conditions to see what turns up.

The youngster says she picked almost all the companies in her portfolio: Disney, Mattel, McDonald's, Delia's and Yankee Candle.

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Pick almost any sporting great and it's the same.

The weeks they pick almost always get derailed by controversy over unrelated issues.

Here's a trick you might try at home sometime: pick almost any recipe in the "Moosewood".

One doesn't have to go to Moscow to see it; pick almost any country in the world.

It's been such a long, steady transition that you could arbitrarily pick almost any moment in the last many decades.

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