Sentence examples for picks rather than from inspiring English sources

Shovels and picks rather than mechanized backhoes clear the ground.

The "Best of" categories appear to be staff picks, rather than a list of the apps with the best user ratings – which, considering that the ratings system is endlessly being gamed, is probably a good thing.

The purpose of the CDF plot is to find the k at which the distribution reaches an approximate maximum, which indicates a maximum stability and after which divisions are equivalent to random picks rather than true cluster structure.

However, in the majority of cases the relationships appeared to be random suggesting that in the cases of substantial overlap these were more likely to be due to multiple clone picks rather than contamination per se.

Banjos played with a plectrum, or pick, rather than fingers lack the chanterelle.

That was changed for these Olympics and individuals were picked rather than existing squads.

She quickly completely stopped picking her legs, and almost completely stopped picking her face (more like normal adolescent picking, rather than obsessive excavation).

Peter Buck developed a style of guitar playing that was, at the time, very unpopular, picking rather than playing punk-rock power chords.

Arizona's starting quarterback is John Skelton, an unheralded 2010 fifth-round pick, rather than Kevin Kolb, the high-priced free agent the Cardinals signed over the last off-season.

If you have a candidate who loves a risk, why indulge with the vice-presidential pick rather than cook up some other hare-brained scheme?

All the tinkering added up to irritating pocket picking, rather than front-on income and corporate tax increases, just as his puny critics claimed.