Sentence examples for will pick on from inspiring English sources

If a teacher shows even one ounce of weakness, children will pick on that weakness, and pick and pick and pick, and pick, until that teacher collapses mentally entirely and has to go on special leave: that is what kids do.

"He will pick on what I know are the bad things straight away," she says.

"They will pick on minor misdemeanors by individual market participants," said David Einhorn, the hedge fund manager who was among the Cassandras before the financial crisis.

"People will pick on things and say, 'you can lose that' and a whole lot of other licence fee-payers will rightly say, 'that's of huge value'".

Often, enemies will pick on things that they have anxiety about in their own life.

Sometimes girls will pick on the little things about you/make fun of you if they think you're in their spotlight.

So they thought: we'll pick on the building workers".

"It wasn't all peaches and cream, but, you know, kids are mean and they'll pick on differences.

I'll pick on one of those fancy-pants products, the Hatteras Alpha Hedged Strategies Fund.

I'll pick one randomly on Monday to win.

We'll pick one winner on Monday at Noon Eastern.