Words similar to pickings

Example sentences for: pickings

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

Dead Man Walking (CBS, 9 PM)--but after that, the pickings get decidedly slimmer.
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."
A drawling official said these fugitives were not experienced in the back country, so they would be easy pickings.
Thursday marks the official beginning of sweeps month, and so there are some rich pickings.
Only a strategic marriage to a Spaniard or a Frenchman will mollify all factions, her advisers insist, but the pickings prove dismal.