Sentence examples for picked on for from inspiring English sources

Do we really think that that White kid will be able to go one day without being picked on for being White, or called a "white boy"?

The very same book I'd been agonisingly picked on for reading the year before.

I was picked on for being too thin, for being feminine, for not liking football, for hanging round with girls, for having long hair.

But if those responses were relatively knee-jerk, that's as nothing to the twitterati, some with something interesting to say about class, a great many without, almost all hampered by the simple Chinese-whisper effect of only having heard that Cumberbatch said something moany about being picked on for being posh.

A noted Aids and LGBT activist, Gaga has recently devoted efforts to eradicating bullying, claiming she was picked on for being different as a child  – although fellow former pupils have described her as a friendly, suburban student who had no problem fitting in.

You've said you were picked on for your weight and dealt with that through humor.

"It's not like people picked on him for it," Mr. Baier said.

Australian newspapers did pay attention: they picked on her for having a swelled head.

"People have picked on me for a long time, from the single-bullet theory to when I was bald," he said.

At 14 Lorenzo is having a tough time: "They picked on me for the way I dressed, because I didn't talk," he says.

Girls at her New York City Catholic school picked on her for being a tomboy with short hair.