Sentence examples for seldom picked from inspiring English sources

But residents complain that the lighting is dim, the gutters prone to flooding, and the trash seldom picked up; Eric T. Schneiderman, the local state senator, said the city agencies were ill-suited to its maintenance.

It's a safe bet that the Kindle is unlikely to attract people who seldom pick up a book or, on the other end of the spectrum, people who prowl antiquarian book fairs for first editions.

The assumptions, the hopes, the arguments [of such literature] are contradicted by the way the vast majority of us live, and by the political and economic structures that determine that lifestyle... sceptical readers so seldom pick up this kind of writing, or submit to its evidence".

Taiwan, being diplomatically isolated by its economically more powerful rival China, seldom picks fights with other nations.

In cat area 17 identification of inhibitory interneurons was difficult both because extracellular recording electrodes might seldom pick up their weaker spikes and because these spikes may be mixed with others from pyramidal cells and cannot be clearly separated during spike sorting.

If you conclude that you seldom pick winners on turf, avoid betting on grass races until you improve your handicapping.

The door to opportunity seldom requires a picked lock, only the right combination.

His Hearts and United sides were efficient and picked up points but seldom entertained the masses.

If handled correctly early in life, guinea pigs become amenable to being picked up and carried, and seldom bite or scratch.

Startups gladly picked up the tab, and it was seldom cheap.

Abby also touched on the way women's physical appearances are picked apart by the media in a way that men's seldom are.