pickup
Example Sentences
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Semiconductor shipments, which account for about one-fifth of total goods exports, continued to drive the pickup in trade.
Cosmo’s parents claim that students had to regularly walk through lines of moving traffic in the parking lot with no pedestrian pathways, and that the school’s protocol for school pickup violated state regulations.
From Los Angeles Times
A vivid memory for Sanchez is his grandfather slaughtering a pig and driving around South-Central on his pickup truck selling it.
From Los Angeles Times
On the morning after Christmas, Paul Caldeira, who works for ReturnQueen, looks through dozens of pickup orders and preps his van with stacks of bags and sorting labels.
It is also actively promoting other vehicles built in the U.S., such as the larger Pathfinder SUV and Frontier pickup, at the expense of Mexican imports.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.