Sentence examples for picked up while from inspiring English sources

The cough is just something I picked up while swimming in a river in France".

I also like the word langer, which I picked up while living in Cork.

His first boyfriend, Tony Hyndman, was a male prostitute he picked up while cruising in Soho.

"I've never been as thrilled flying first-class as I was being picked up while hitchhiking," he told me.

But if you ask me, these are all hobbies that Mr. Dufresne picked up while pursuing his true vocation as mad neurologist.

In 1992 it was an eccentric habit I had picked up while studying in Cambridge by a wide margin Britain's most cycle-friendly city.

But the campaign has a secret linguistic weapon: Romney's youngest son, Craig, speaks fluent Spanish — picked up while serving as a Mormon missionary in Chile.

Each drop carries with it a quantity of dissolved calcium carbonate (the defining ingredient of limestone) that it has picked up while flowing through the rock above.

It helps that Ms. Rainford speaks fluent Spanish — a skill she picked up while caring for AIDS patients all those years ago.

After 47 years of devoted marriage, Raymond Smith died in February 2008 from a secondary infection that he picked up while being treated in hospital for pneumonia.

Mr. Masri says he was picked up while vacationing in Macedonia in late 2003 and flown to a squalid prison in Afghanistan.