Sentence examples for started to pick off from inspiring English sources

Not just when Arsenal started to pick off their tired opponents in the last 20 minutes but also in that dispiriting period midway through the first half when it was an effort for the home side to get even the briefest periods of possession.

Oscilloscope, though, was operating on a different frequency, far from the Hollywood hum, which showed as it started to pick off-Hollywood titles like the documentaries "Flow" (about the water crisis) and "Frontrunners" (about a student union race at Stuyvesant High School in New York).

Or will he start to pick off dissenters at the top of the party and force the pace of change in policy?

No: sadly, it's when fatigue starts to pick off your party pals a mere three hours into a big night out.

Britain knew they had only one option when play resumed and they dominated the early stages of the second half, but after Jackson missed with another penalty corner chance the Dutch started to pick them off at will.

MIGHT this be remembered as the week when the shattered telecoms industry started to pick itself up off the floor?

She started crying and the teacher started to pick up where she left off.

Then a headwind started to pick up, pushing Marin's bow off center, the women having to "scull" it around to keep the boat aligned.

As the river swells, they become stranded and an unseen killer starts to pick them off, one by one.

You have staggered there, taking three or four times as long, with at least 10 others, stopping and starting to pick up and drop off people on the roadside on their way to and from work in the white areas.

"This is like a runway where you start to pick up speed and take off — I think that's what we're doing," he said.