Sentence examples for picked upon from inspiring English sources

Ebrahimi was a disabled man, driven out of his previous house by a mysterious arson attack following complaints from neighbours, then picked upon again for being "different" on his new estate in Bristol.

The Americans think they are being picked upon and are furious.

It lets us feel picked upon and sorry for ourselves and betrayed.

Would my boys be picked upon, because they speak fluent Spanish to each other?

As a boy in Pretoria, Musk was un dersized and picked upon, a smart-aleck known as Muskrat.

Juncker, and residents of Luxembourg more broadly, are aggrieved that they are being picked upon by the EU's heavyweights.

Ruskin excoriated Murillo, absurdly picking upon his innocent street urchins as inappropriately degenerate subjects for art.

"There's a certain romanticism to the hijackers and that's something, again, that Taruskin picks upon.

I will only pick upon one of the litany of examples that no doubt are popping into your minds to exemplify the point.

Who needs to have a conversation when you prefer the feudal nature of Twitter, where huge nodes like Brooker can pick and choose who they pick upon and who they ignore?

This sarcastic sense of humor stuck as Polke continued to pick upon the tropes of artistic trends and quietly deride them.