pick up
Example Sentences
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I think he procrastinates because he either doesn’t want to run errands for his 93-year-old mother or else he needs to pick up his mail.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
More than 12,000 passengers were screened at five UK airports during the 2014 outbreak in West Africa, but these failed to pick up the only case, that of nurse Pauline Cafferkey.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
“So like around March I could feel it coming. I just—I had to play. I couldn’t help myself. And three times the same week I pick up a—‘don’t do it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
The top two vote-getters in California’s non-partisan primaries will advance to theNovember runoff, unless one candidate manages to pick up more than 50% of the vote.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
I wasn’t even allowed to pick up a shovel.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
