Examples of 'picked up' in a sentence
Meaning of "picked up"
To collect or acquire something or someone. It can refer to physically lifting or gathering an object, or to meeting and giving a ride to a person. The phrase is used in a variety of contexts, such as picking up groceries, picking up a friend from the airport, or picking up a new hobby
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- simple past tense and past participle of pick up
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Traffic camera picked up the swap car.
I picked up this appropriate little number there.
The car is being picked up down by the woods.
I picked up the furniture from the streets.
But we have never picked up girls before.
We picked up the signature from your reactor.
Perhaps she could be picked up on a charge of soliciting.
He picked up the copies about a month ago.
Unless of course we picked up the wrong boxes.
I picked up a side job catering private events.
Half the stuff was picked up for pennies.
I have picked up a lot of business on this spot.
The passenger was later picked up by another boat.
He picked up a junkie and took her to a flophouse.
You could have picked up the kids.
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I picked up a pregnant woman in the club car.
One of them probes picked up a life form.
Rex picked up the settlement this afternoon.
We know you have been picked up by the police.
Scanners picked up a suspicious call this morning.
Along the way we picked up this dog.
She picked up a bracelet from the tomb.
I hung around and picked up a few things.
We picked up on seven hives orbiting a single planet.
These themes are picked up in the next section.
I picked up some bad habits from you.
If he might have picked up some rare parasite.
He picked up a rock and started coming at me with it.
You will get picked up for mopery.
He picked up both women at grief support meetings.
The police have picked up the alarm.
I picked up the drugs from a blind mailbox.
You could have picked up the phone.
He picked up the keys from the girl.
I do not know if you picked up on that that.
I just picked up the phone and he came.
This burden should not have been picked up.
This one we picked up four years ago.
Picked up a little girl who seems to be in shock.
But i already picked up a copy on my way home.
Picked up an extra shift at the club tonight.
My dad had not picked up a basketball in years.
We can survive long enough to get picked up.
Phoebe just picked up the ingredient we were missing.
When he was getting tipsy he picked up the brush.
His brother picked up a letter to his kids.
The guy on the roof was picked up later.
It just picked up some experience before that.
I will send get you picked up at once.
Tonight he picked up a half a million in ransom money.
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You picked that up all on your own
Maldis would have picked it out of my brain
You picked a wrong guy to mess with
