Sentence examples for picked badly from inspiring English sources

Unused to love, she picked badly or perhaps was just unlucky, choosing men who left her or who were somehow incapable of providing the sort of financial and emotional security she needed.

She said herself she picked very badly and she did.

FLAMES 5, BLACKHAWKS 3: Jarome Iginla scored his 17th and 18th goals of the season as host Calgary picked up a badly needed two points with a victory over Chicago.

"Let's be blunt: The drama-club kids and the artsy, creative kids often get picked on just as badly as the gay kids".

During his deployments, Sergeant Bales, 38, lost part of a foot and injured his head, saw fellow soldiers badly wounded, picked up the bodies of dead Iraqis, was treated for mild traumatic brain injury and possibly developed post-traumatic stress disorder, his lawyer and military officials said.

The funniest part is, perhaps the most unlikely of the characters in this drama -- Cornell -- might have put on the most impressive display of actual basketball over the weekend, with Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com detailing just how badly it picked apart a well-coached Wisconsin team.

Labour lost last week's election badly, but it picked up a consolation prize.

Urged to perform in another neighborhood as well, because the city's tragedy was so widespread, Chan and McElroen picked a site in the badly damaged Gentilly section.

We didn't do badly though; we picked some larvae out of the beams before the brook froze over and even feasted on fish.

Meanwhile people who made a living from skinning carcasses for leather and selling bones for fertiliser or gelatine after the vultures have picked them clean have been badly hit.

To get to the bottom of what qualifies as "badly designed," we picked the brains of several urban planners to highlight the flaws of some of the world's biggest cities.