Sentence examples for poor pickings from inspiring English sources
There is always a risk that provocation will succeed where two communities, distrustful of one another and separated by language and culture, compete over poor economic pickings.
I suspect that some advisers play an icy cold hand, either because of poor stock-picking ability or high transaction costs.
The son of poor, cotton-picking, sharecropping parents and one of 11 children, Pride was attracted in his youth both by Grand Ole Opry radio broadcasts featuring the "King of Country Music" Roy Acuff and honky-tonk artists Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb and by baseball.
Critics call this cherry-picking from poor countries that desperately need the services of the trained people they have invested in.
("I guess they were easy pickings," he said. "The poor things don't have a chance").
Burundi ranks among the poorest of countries, but officials enjoy rich pickings.
Ray Lewis and Ed Reed will be enshrined in Canton if they ever retire, and while Lewis has been about half as good as his reputation for the last five years, Reed still feeds off the poor decisions of quarterbacks like some cherry-picking vampire.
