Words similar to picking

Example sentences for: picking

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

when he is picking out his cabinet.
Gingrich is now picking himself up off the asphalt.
Dole has been going after the Times over the objections of advisers who have been telling him there's no percentage in picking fights with the press.
Thus it is user-unfriendly of a dictionary—any reference book, in fact—to exhibit a style so involved as to be virtually unassimilable save by a dedicated, experienced few: except for the arcana, dictionary style should be revealed transparently to anyone picking up the book, and no one should be required to take a course in dictionary navigation or to spend half an hour adjusting his eyes to read reams of six-point type.
Not only were Jack and Bobby assassinated, but "the younger generation of Kennedys has been haunted by bad news as well," says the Post --"as if fate were picking them off," laments Time .