Sentence examples for worked picked from inspiring English sources

Seeing a Wronged Man acting like Violet Elizabeth Bott with PMT is never a pretty sight, and even Cusk's monumental self-control can falter in the face of it: "I earned the money in our household, did my share of the cooking and cleaning, paid someone to look after the children while I worked, picked them up from school when they were older.

He worked picking watermelons for his family and learned to drive an 18-wheeler.

"Mama," as he called his great aunt, worked picking cotton, shaking peanuts and pulling corn.

He sneaked into Corsica in 1992, and worked picking oranges and grapes.

After that, he was sentenced to a chain gang, where he worked — picking cotton again — for seven years.

One summer, I worked picking tomatoes and cucumbers; another summer, I was a busboy in a diner.

Her Southern Colorado district is heavily Hispanic and reliably Democratic, hardly ideal terrain to oust a lawmaker with Mexican roots whose mother once worked picking beans.

She'd drop me off, walk to work, pick me up, and roll me back home".

Morrison got to work picking tomatoes off a small vine trained against a stone wall.

He had dropped out of school at 17 to work picking crops.

For a bundle of rupees he sets the bird to work, picking from a selection of cards.