Sentence examples for were picked for from inspiring English sources

They were picked for their color.

Men with good diction were picked for this job.

Ms. Marglin said the models were picked for their looks and their sense of mirth.

All were picked for their ability to "fill in my blanks, in things I'm not good at".

It's more likely that aspects of her life were picked for characters, such as Bella Wilfer in Our Mutual Friend.

And then the two states played a three-match series from which the best players were picked for Australia.

Another, Clark Sygurdsson, 63, with 39 years on the job — men with seniority were picked for Monday's work — shrugged.

Positive clones were picked for mini plasmid preparation (QIAGEN, Hilden, Germany).

In KOSR medium the colonies looked flattened and were picked for cutting to derive cell lines.

In LBX medium the colonies looked domed and were picked for digesting to derive cell lines.

P- and S-wave arrivals were picked for earthquakes that occurred between 2000 and 2005.