Example sentences for: pickup

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

  • In fact, every car on the Interstate seems to be making better time than we are, even the pickup trucks towing large objects.

  • In the background, multicolor houses in many hues cascade down the surrounding hillsides, and a game of pickup basketball is played on the public court that fronts the harbor.

  • There was little reported progress in the search for the bombers, though a Kenyan daily newspaper quoted witnesses who recalled seeing a man waiting in a pickup truck Friday morning in the alley behind the embassy, where the bomb exploded.

  • John William King received the death penalty for chaining James Byrd Jr. to a pickup truck and dragging him to his death.

  • About a month ago, the NYT ran a front-page story revealing that crash tests show sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks are inflicting very high levels of harm to cars and their occupants in collisions, and today the Times brings word that in response, some big insurance companies are raising their liability rates on the oversize vehicles.


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