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Example sentences for "pick them"

  • If you have a garden, raise your own hops by all means; pick them by the first of September, or they will lose their strength; dry them on sheets spread on the garret floor.

  • She was obviously ill at ease, and dropped the sugar-tongs when she was offered sugar with a loud clatter on to the varnished floor, nearly sweeping the cups off the table in her effort to pick them up again.

  • When she dropped her scissors, she had to pick them up for herself.

  • Perhaps her little boys would like to pick them; anyhow, some sort of an inducement had to be held out.

  • I sort into two classes, good and bad; we sort as we pick them.

  • When she rushes at thee, take and scatter the pears, and it will take her till cockcrow to pick them all up.

  • Besides, he scattered his nuts, and she went after them and tried to pick them all up till cockcrow.

  • She rushed to pick them up and lost all the rest.

  • Pick them nicely, singe, wash, and truss them.

  • Pick them clean as much as a peck into a convenient vessel, and bruise them with a piece of wood, taking as much care as possible to keep the seeds whole.

  • Boil them in water half an hour, and then put them into warm water to pick them.

  • Pick them clean, wash them in two or three waters, and rub them with salt.

  • Take as many golden rennets as will fill the dish that is to go to table; pick them of a size; pare them, and take out the cores at the bottom, that they may appear whole at the top.

  • Pick them in dry weather before they are too large; cut them at both ends with scissars, that they may not be broken; put them into very dry bottles, and fill them up to the neck with cold spring water.

  • Pick them, then draw and truss them; let their breasts be larded with broad pieces of bacon; roast and serve them up on toasts dipped in verjuice.

  • I follow along after and I do pick them up.

  • The time it did take to pick them up--it was not a long time.

  • When I went to pick them up, they were broken.

  • God likes to have us pick them: I know he does," said Nelly, earnestly.

  • She had hid them all in a pile near the pine-tree whose branch she had broken down; and she meant to pick them up on her way home the next night.

  • Remember this, all of you little children who love flowers and like to pick them.

  • Pick them up, children, and try to keep out of mischief for the rest of the day.

  • The harvest is uncommonly fine, but there's nobody to gather it in; there are loads of wild berries ripe on the bushes, but nobody able to pick them.

  • No, Cyril, don't pick them up, and be sure you don't step on them.

  • They could only picture to themselves numberless human beings struggling for their lives, those in the boat employed in endeavouring to pick them up.

  • Still Desmond, who had become perfectly ravenous, could not help wishing that the commander, instead of keeping off the coast, had stood in nearer to pick them up.

  • Gather sprigs or bunches of radish pods while they are young and tender, but let the pods remain on the sprigs; it not being the custom to pick them off.

  • In the morning get some ripe red currants; pick them, from the stalks, and squeeze them through a linen cloth till you have just sufficient juice to moisten the remaining sugar, which you must have ready in a preserving kettle.

  • Pick them nicely, and wipe them clean, but do not wash them.

  • Pick them immediately; but it is the fashion to cook these birds without drawing.

  • If I don't pick them up, they'll fall into the sun!

  • Can't seem to pick them up at the Academy again.

  • If I don't pick them up, they'll all be killed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pick them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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