Sentence examples for thing picked from inspiring English sources

He still has a job, but the work environment tends, he says, to be hostile since "the union thing" picked up steam.

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But the latter happens to be a local tech entrepreneur with somewhat of a following on Twitter and his blog, so after writing a post about the tweet take-down notice titled "Yes, I deleted that tweet", the Belgian twittosphere (I swear, there is such a thing!) picked up on the story and started retweeting and blogging about the now non-existing Twitter message.

Another boy, an elegant and graceful young thing, picked up the fallen sword and returned it to Chandler with a small bow.

On the floor was a round hooked rug with the face of a Wild Thing picked out in green-gold wool.

Independent film makers working on a $1 million movie about a struggling artist, "The Next Big Thing," picked her to create the artwork for the film.

"I thought it was a fine thing picking cotton.

Others are scattered around doing their own thing: picking fights in bars, beating up gay men.

"No such thing: pick a side!" he told one voter in 2005.

Don't stress over every little thing, pick your battles wisely.

When you get bored of one thing, pick something else to do.