Sentence examples for picking up whatever from inspiring English sources

I remember there were a lot of people laughing and giggling and just picking up whatever they liked, just taking it, running in, running back out.

The tattered cloak worked like a carpet sweeper, its extrusions of wire and gauze picking up whatever nails, fluff and wood shavings were lying about the stage.

Catherine read plenty in Russian, Massie reports, "but French was the language she preferred, and she read French books indiscriminately, picking up whatever her ladies-in-waiting happened to be reading.

Some of us have seen reproductions of Millet's painting "The Gleaners" a thousand times without giving much thought to gleaning -- picking up whatever farmers have left after the harvest, in fact taking anything that owners have discarded.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin May 11, 2009 In the Justice Department torture memos, waterboarding was described as a procedure in which "the water is usually applied from a canteen cup or small watering can with a spout" — evoking a camping trip gone wrong, or a spy looking around his orchid-filled solarium and picking up whatever happened to be at hand.

But Yakubu also emphasizes the importance of picking up whatever knowledge is needed to understand a problem.

His successor will have to pick up whatever remains undone.

I'd rather just pick up whatever you've dropped".

"They'll generally pick up whatever's lying around".

After that, I'll drive to a farm stand and pick up whatever's fresh.

He picked up whatever was lying around and hit her with it".