Sentence example with the word 'pickings'

pickings

blackmail, dividends, gettings, hoard, lucre, pelf, pork barrel, public trough, spoils, swag

Definition n. the act of someone who picks up or takes something

Last update: October 20, 2015


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The officer was arrested becauuse of taking pickings.   [Please select]

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On to rural America where the pickings are as fertile as the country side and there's always a trusting little soul willing to help a stranger.   [Please select]

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Early marriages were the rule in the Back Country and betrothals were frequently plighted at these berry pickings.   [Please select]

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"There are good pickings here," said Davy Crockett, "but they'll soon be too many for us."'   [Please select]

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It comes with Cæsar anyway; the Lord prospers him; she'll have her pickings.'   [Please select]

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And for poultry there was the Plesiosaurus; there were nice pickings on that too.   [Please select]

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Wild-cats quarreled like fiends over the pickings; more than once I heard them there screeching in the night.   [Please select]

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Can you fancy a fellow like Tausig stooping down to help me tenderly on board to divide the pickings.   [Please select]

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