Sentence examples for pretends to pick from inspiring English sources

When she lets loose a simian cry — "Ooh, ooh, ah, ah, ee, ee, ee, eh, eh" — or pretends to pick nits from your hair, her commitment to the improvisation is total.

"By that I mean more contentious situations where the ball has gone out of play and the goalkeeper is wasting time or someone goes down feigning injury, or the ball rolls off the pitch and the manager pretends to pick it up and misses it.

The lady approaches the boys, says "hi" and pretends to pick up litter in front of them.

"She would be pretending to pick out engagement rings".

For three bills, you got the works: A thin Jewish brunette would pretend to pick you up at the Museum of Modern Art, let you read her master's, get you involved in a screaming quarrel at Elaine's over Freud's conception of women, and then fake a suicide of your choosing — the perfect evening, for some guys.

"You're Too Kind" embraces the history of flattery from its origins in encomiums engraved on Egyptian tombs to the demagogy of the Presidential Point (presidents, beginning with Reagan, Stengel notes, pretend to pick out a familiar face in the crowd and nudge the wife, who also points and smiles: our rulers flatter us by appearing to be just like us, "actually having friends").

Kinematic studies have shown that when pretending to pick up imagined objects (pantomimed actions), we move and shape our hands quite differently from when grasping real ones.

Participants were asked either to pick up the object (real grasp), or to pretend to pick up an equivalent object located to one side of it (pantomimed grasp), with their dominant hand (Figure 1).

Pretend to pick your teeth.

Open your mouth wide and pretend to pick away at something stuck.

Outdoor picture locations include the vineyards, outside the doors to the winery, walking down vineyard paths, and pretending to pick grapes from the vines.