Sentence examples for picking upon from inspiring English sources

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

Perhaps they also thought that picking upon the male lover/partner of Greenwald would somehow intimidate and/or embarrass the journalist from further coverage of Snowden and his disclosures.

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.

We are a small people on the margins who are being picked upon," says Bjorn Hugo Bendiksen.

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.

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

His conclusion is that radical Islam has picked upon America more or less by default, simply because it is now perceived of as the leader of the unbelievers.