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Example sentences for "pickings"

Lexicographically close words:
picketing; pickets; picketted; pickin; picking; pickle; pickled; pickles; pickling; picklock
  1. The white folks had cotton pickings and corn shuckings often and we helped.

  2. Pass the linney; I want to make pickings out of that.

  3. He has made his pickings before now on shore and off wrecks, and has not given up the practice.

  4. Ay; no doubt there are good pickings to be had out of every one of them," answered Marshall.

  5. And the medley already shakes hands, and enemies kiss each other, because if their elect succeeds, there will be peace over, and pickings for all the world.

  6. I hope the Sewing machine was in honor and exposed as a surtout on the banquet's table, and that only the guano-claim successfully recovered from Venezuela, and other equally innocent pickings paid the piper.

  7. Well, unkindly whelp, if your bone has no pickings better than this, not a cur shall envy you the sorry banquet.

  8. Apparently, his reputation had gone ahead of him, since most of the hoodlums had decided pickings would be easier on some beat where the cops had their own secret rackets to attend to, instead of head busting.

  9. With the cops busy fighting each other, this was better pickings than outside the dome.

  10. Pickings are always a little lean on the first few beats, but you can work some fairly well.

  11. Thal boomed: "The pickings should be good, eh?

  12. Your weapons would destroy our enemies," said Thal placidly, "and the pickings would be good.

  13. Political pickings in Crocker, which pickings the neighbors called by a much worse name, were consistently good.

  14. Only a few pickings are necessary and the seed is separated by machines worked by horse power at small cost, often not exceeding 10 cents a pound.

  15. That exported is prepared from the larger and older leaves of the respective pickings and rolled in the same manner as the former, from which fact it is also known as “Big Gunpowder” and also as “Pea-leaf.

  16. They are principally prepared from the largest but most succulent leaves of the first pickings and cured by a series of brisk firings and rollings.

  17. The product of the later pickings are of less strength and flavor, but are still smooth and pleasing in liquor and flavor, making very serviceable teas for mixing owing to their general intrinsic properties.

  18. Tubby sure, the pickings has been excellent here in the shadow of the skyscrapers, and it'll probably be harder sledding out amongst the disk-harrow boys.

  19. Naturally, pickings were at their best on a Monday, for since Mother Eve on the first Monday hanged her fig leaf out to dry, Monday has been wash day the world over.

  20. We spent several of the succeeding days in running up and down the river, in pursuit of some of those rich pickings we had so confidently expected; but without success.

  21. You've made your pickings out of me and the other tenants.

  22. The servants of Europeans are also largely drawn from this class, and a capable servant is able to secure wages which, together with pickings in the shape of tips and perquisites, enable him to save.

  23. They also sit and watch near the Hindu burning-grounds, which suggests the uncomfortable idea that pickings are to be had there also.

  24. It's easy pickings for you, Finburg--easy pickings.

  25. They turned the stock loose to graze on the thin pickings among the cottonwoods and willows.

  26. There will be plenty of pickings meet for any man.

  27. We'll let it slip out quietly among the islands that Harry Morgan's afloat once more and there's pickings to be had on the Spanish Main--wine and women and pieces of eight.

  28. The last two or three pickings are thin and only secured once a week.

  29. Altogether ten or eleven good pickings are gathered from each bed.

  30. He found the spruce pickings scratched up toward one end, and arranged as they would be for no human occupant.

  31. In the corner farthest from the chimney, over against the partition, was a shallow sleeping bunk, a mere oblong box partly filled with dry red pickings of spruce and hemlock.

  32. And I wish you were all at each other's throats more than you are; for the King shall have his pickings by way of fines and amercements, and so will I, and so will lawyers and bailiffs and others, and so ye are weakened the more.

  33. If I only handle this woman rightly, then I may get the hold I want on this old recluse Johnstone, congested with the fat pickings of forty-five years.

  34. If you are lying to me, Ram Lal, we may lose both our pickings from this fat pagoda tree.

  35. The future pickings of this young heiress would be then lost to her!

  36. Ram Lal's eyes gleamed in anticipation of the fat pickings of the Mem-Sahib.

  37. For, when he had rifled and destroyed the two mahogany boxes he summed all up his pickings with baffled rage.

  38. Between a father with a secret to keep, and this strange woman with a purpose, there is a pretty girl and a vast fortune at issue, besides the prospective pickings of Madame Berthe Louison.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pickings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    blackmail; boodle; booty; dividend; earnings; gain; gains; get; gleaning; graft; gross; haul; hoard; income; interest; killing; loot; lucre; makings; net; pelf; percentage; perquisite; pickings; plunder; prize; proceeds; profit; receipts; return; returns; spoil; squeeze; stealing; store; swag; take; till; wealth; winnings