Sentence examples for were being picked from inspiring English sources

More damaged babies were being picked up during routine scans of pregnant women.

"The closest I got to Syrians was telling asylum seekers where they were being picked up.

You have a sense of fragile sounds hugely amplified, as if they were being picked up by a hypersensitive microphone.

So what a surprise it must have been when tenants complained that they were being picked out for attack.

"Many of them weren't aware why they were being picked up, whether they were in trouble or they were being used as witnesses".

Bin Laden's associates were being picked off by the now intense missile strikes from unmanned drones over the tribal areas, and his communications were clearly difficult.

"We're being picked apart.

People are being picked up".

He feels he's being picked on".

Consumers' pockets are being picked clean".

"Everything that can be eaten is being picked.