Sentence examples for picks upon from inspiring English sources
"There's a certain romanticism to the hijackers and that's something, again, that Taruskin picks upon.
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 seats went to Hazaras, a picked-upon minority.
Mauresmo is no longer the picked-upon newcomer.
It happens when Bill, the picked-upon nerd played by Martin Starr, comes home from a shitty school day and unwinds with a cheese sandwich, a donut, milk, and a stand-up show on TV.
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?
Ruskin excoriated Murillo, absurdly picking upon his innocent street urchins as inappropriately degenerate subjects for art.
As a boy in Pretoria, Musk was un dersized and picked upon, a smart-aleck known as Muskrat.
