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Example sentences for: picks

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

Newsweek picks the 11 most important ideas of the past 2,000 years, including the stirrup, plumbing, the printing press, numbers, erasers, and clocks, but not electricity.
[Subheading of Cable firm picks new Portland president, an article in the Portland Press Herald by staff writer Eric Blom, 14 April 1995.]
Republicans fear that if he picks his issues carefully--education or the environment, not the IMF (too foreign)--vetoes some of the spending bills, and blocks a continuing resolution, he could galvanize disaffected Democrats in Congress and distract voters from Flytrap.
The Washington Post reports that they're going to cut a deal in which the father comes here and picks the kid up.
] Also used in the English sense of a girl who climbs trees, picks scabs, disdains frocks, though less so nowadays.