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:

' 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.
Only a strategic marriage to a Spaniard or a Frenchman will mollify all factions, her advisers insist, but the pickings prove dismal.
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.
A drawling official said these fugitives were not experienced in the back country, so they would be easy pickings.