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Example sentences for: pickings

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Only a strategic marriage to a Spaniard or a Frenchman will mollify all factions, her advisers insist, but the pickings prove dismal.
A drawling official said these fugitives were not experienced in the back country, so they would be easy pickings.
' Some of it is Australian underworld slang: fruit for the sideboard `easy pickings,' tank a `safe,' track `prison warder who carries contraband messages or goods out of or into a prison for a prisoner.
He had had girlfriends before, but after three years in the desert town of Del Rio, Texas, he joked to a friend, "it was slim pickings."
Dead Man Walking (CBS, 9 PM)--but after that, the pickings get decidedly slimmer.