Sentence examples for picked up a message from inspiring English sources

Ms. Schmidt put away her work cellphone for the weekend, then picked up a message anyway.

Holmes picked up a message on their answering machine from a local jeweler: a wedding ring was ready for pickup!

Not only was it a signal that Syria may now be punished for the cover it has long given to extremist factions such as Islamic Jihad, from whom the Israelis say they picked up a message in Damascus congratulating its cell in Jenin for the attack.

Just maybe, in the looping chains of broken syllables, the clashing metre of compounded phonemes, he's picking up a message, a weak signal slowly forming in time's static: an announcement, for those astute enough to hear, of a monstrous age of mechanised industry lurking in the night of the future.

(iii) Workers' execution time (i.e., time between the moment when a worker picks up a message from the queue and the moment when it acknowledges the queue of accomplishing the task).

The main parameters used here are the following: the time spent on picking up a message is hour (36 seconds), the single trip time between the headquarter and the disaster area is hour (12 minutes), and the deadline for a message is 4 hours.

Twenty minutes ago I picked up a text message that read: August Wilson has died.

And Sarah said: 'We think so.'" Sarah and Kelly had picked up a phone message from a neighbour in the family's home town of Olympia, Washington State, conveying sympathy after hearing about "the tragedy" on television.

The code breakers then picked up a Japanese message that "AF was short on water".

At 01 00 on 2 May, the Soviets picked up a radio message from the LVI Panzer Corps requesting a cease-fire and stating that emissaries would come under a white flag to Potsdamer bridge.

Lamoriello said goodbye, shook hands, put on his glasses, picked up a stack of messages and reached for the telephone.