Sentence examples for the act of picking from inspiring English sources

The act of picking it up fills me with embarrassment.

The act of picking one thing over another thing saved them.

They certainly stretched mine — at least the act of picking my favorites did.

The most exciting, and my favourite, is foraging, which originally meant to wander in search of food and provisions, but is used these days to describe the act of picking and eating wild foods.

For some, the act of picking up a camera is an exercise in futility.

The formal medical term used to describe the act of picking one's nose is "rhinotillexomania".

"The very act of picking up the phone is an attempt to reach out one last time," she said.

In Mrs. Frey's case, as with so many new mothers, and a few new dads, the "repetitive lifting" was the everyday act of picking up her baby.

Yet it was the very act of picking up the prejudiced notion and suggesting it was a valid opinion for public debate that was so offensive, something the BBC utterly failed to acknowledge.

Kentridge described a rigorous exercise in which Lecoq students had to act out six degrees of tension in breathing and speaking — he demonstrated them for me — from a kind of lassitude that made movement of any kind virtually impossible, to the sixth degree, in which the simple act of picking up a fork involves a "rictus of tension that corresponds to Japanese Noh theatre".

And of course, the people of Hawaii prioritize the simple act of picking their heads up every once and while.