Sentence examples for picking something up from inspiring English sources
"We're talking a couple of days — nothing before Tuesday — in terms of picking something up".
She alleges Ayrton then sat down before picking something up off the floor, and left.
"They are just picking something up that others can't," Mr. Cowan said.
It can be alienating – for example, if you are picking something up from a restaurant because someone is too lazy to walk a minute down the road.
China offered a vase and pin set emblazoned with "Expo 2010 Shanghai China," like an exhausted dad picking something up on his way out of the convention.
I asked him to suggest books that might lure the reluctant reader into picking something up and settling down to turn the pages; books suited to reading aloud or for a new reader reading alone.
"Just pick something up for me".
Can't get to the library to pick something up?
At one point he bends down to pick something up off the floor.
As they pass they will crouch down to pick something up: a ring!
If you pick something up, it is yours until you put it down.
