Words similar to picked

Example sentences for: picked

How can you use “picked” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I'm glad you picked up on the alternative newspaper question, for two reasons.
He picked up his brake (Brit. shooting brake) Brit. estate car, US station wagon from the parking (-lot) and drove home.
Yesterday, Chatterbox drove by the Brookings building and picked up the latest issue of the Brookings Review .
To confirm whether the new information by this approach is reliable, we randomly picked up two differentially expressed genes, IGFBP2 and integrin beta 4, that were identified by the amplification protocol but not by the regular protocol for confirmation using western blotting, northern blotting and immunohistochemistry assays.
We also learn via the paper's "Work Week" that the new CEO of Sunbeam has been so busy this summer that "I signed up for race-car driving, and I canceled that; I was supposed to play a lot of golf, and I haven't picked up a golf club all summer."