Sentence examples for picking it off from inspiring English sources

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The first poetry book I remember reading - picking it off the shelf by chance - was a selected EE Cummings, which I loved.

Without toys or food, the three-year-old had resorted to licking or eating the paper from her wall, spending hours diligently picking it off in pieces, an entire arc cleared by her bed-head as she foraged; tiny scraps had been found stuck to her locked fists.

"It's not normally like this!" the guide joked... Gunnálvur explained how he would stalk these slopes during the islands' long, dark, numbing winters; lying in wait in the snow for hours for an unlucky hare to come out foraging, before picking it off with his rifle and taking it home for dinner, like a culinary cross between Andy McNab and Ray Mears.

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I was able to pick it off the post".

I picked it off the book shelf recently.

I picked it off and disposed of it.

Writer picks it off with a tweezers & takes it off to another part of the house.

He was pulling up seaweed, but he simply picked it off his line and cast again.

Just grab what you want and pick it off anyone else.

"If there was an easy answer, we would've picked it off the shelf".

At one point, he knocked away Jacob Voracek's fallen glove as Voracek was about to pick it off the ice.

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