Sentence examples for picked up the skill from inspiring English sources

He did all his own tailoring, seemingly having picked up the skill without thinking about it.

They had picked up the skill living in parts of the Middle East where alcohol was banned.

He'd started out unable to catch a football — Hagan recalled throwing him 100 passes until he picked up the skill.

She says she picked up the skill of improvising from the many sound systems she attended as a child, when her father was an MC for Spiral Tribe.

Lee Johnn Krasinski and Evelyn Emily Bluntnt), as well as oldest son Marcus Noah Jupee), picked up the skill because their daughter, Regan Millicent Simmondss), is deaf.

Ufot, 38, has known how to braid since she was 15; she picked up the skill in Warri, Nigeria, where she was born.

They haven't picked up the skills they need to get to work.

Kenneth Powell, whose job is to screen prisoners at Abu Ghraib, according to the documents, recently retired after 24 years with the Mobile, Ala., police force, where presumably he picked up the skills, and the security clearance, to screen Iraqi prisoners.

"She never picked up the skills to hold her anger in check so that she can administer and govern," said Laveesh Bhandari, director of Indicus, an economic research firm.

"My IT knowledge back at that time was not very good," he says, but he soon picked up the skills he needed.

The company's CEO Michael Zhen had a long career at Motorola, where he says he picked up the skills and ideas necessary to start his own company.