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Example sentences for "pickup"

Lexicographically close words:
picklock; pickpocket; pickpockets; picks; pickt; pickups; picnic; picnicked; picnickers; picnicking
  1. About ten-hundred, I found I couldn't do anything with it, and my assistant and I loaded it on a pickup truck and took it to Henry Stenson's instrument shop.

  2. What he got was an empty stretch of moonlit plain to the south, from a pickup on one of the steel towers the veldbeest herders used.

  3. The pickup car jetted toward it; by the time it reached the spot, the shooting had stopped, and a crowd was gathering around something white on the ground.

  4. The prisoner was put in a cell by himself; there was a pickup eye, and one of my deputies was keeping him under observation by screen.

  5. Then suddenly there was this stranger getting out of his pickup truck--the pickup that had bumped into the back of our truck, the pickup that had been loaded with big red apples.

  6. What did he look like, the man in the pickup truck?

  7. There wasn't as many here as where the pickup truck is setting here.

  8. Then, we have five fertilizer and charcoal scows, and a lot of heavy transport lorries, and two one-eighty-foot pickup boats.

  9. And we didn't get the worst of it; the pickup on the Gaucho was knocked out too soon.

  10. The screen tuned to the pickup on the airjeep went dead; in the big screen, there was a twinkling of falling fire.

  11. The airjeep with the pickup circled back; the troops on the road and in the adjoining fields had broken.

  12. Lieutenant Kalanang's jeep was hit; Lieutenant Vermaas is cutting in his pickup on the same wavelength.

  13. Now, I have never been there but about twice, but at this particular time, last July until right after Christmas, we were looking just for a used pickup or a used car for my husband to haul his tools in.

  14. It was agreed that the Oswald household goods and other paraphernalia would be moved to the Halls in the pickup truck.

  15. Mrs. Hall had permission to drive to and from work with the pickup truck.

  16. After you saw these kids at this big pickup on Friday or Saturday, did you ever see any of them again after that?

  17. I do recall clearly that Mrs. Hall had a pickup truck which was owned by the dental laboratory where she was employed.

  18. Delivery and pickup The Council drivers stop at each library which has a pickup or delivery to be made (public libraries send materials to LILRC via their respective systems).

  19. Have items ready for pickup at the designated spot when the driver arrives.

  20. INS--How it works 7 Billing Cancellations Delivery and pickup Microforms Photocopies of missing pages Recall Renewals Returns Status reports 5.

  21. The sound-pickup was too far away to give him what they were saying, but the butler and maid were waving their arms and protesting vehemently.

  22. Yandar Yadd had appeared on the screen as the pickup swung about.

  23. But--" He gestured to the viewscreen across the room, tuned to a pickup back of the Speaker's chair in the Council Chamber.

  24. The pickup seemed to be pointed downward from the bow of an airboat circling at about ten thousand feet.

  25. Are you telling me that your department was blind enough to let someone pipe a spy pickup right into this office?

  26. It was a spy pickup with its outlet in your office, sir," Sellors said, letting the words tumble out in one blur.

  27. It was obvious, Walton thought, that the spy pickup which had been planted in his office had been a direct pipe line to the Citizen news desk.

  28. He shuddered at what might have happened if they'd had their spy pickup installed a day earlier, and overheard Walton in the process of suppressing Lamarre's immortality serum.

  29. The audio pickup brought in the sound of stertorous breathing.

  30. My wife moved Marina from their apartment there at Montgomery Ward to our home in a pickup truck that she borrowed from her employer at that time.

  31. I understand that you helped Marina move from the apartment in Fort Worth to your house in a pickup truck that you borrowed?

  32. Maáyug pik-ap ang íyang dyip kay bag-u ang makina, His jeep has excellent pickup because it is new.

  33. A; ac] take a pickup, bring in a pickup bus.

  34. She felt a slight lurch as the pickup left the hub of the Guardian Wheel.

  35. Mryna had slept twice when the auto-pickup lurched out of the time drive and she was able to see the stars again.

  36. With the Wheel gone, she could never return to Rythar; the auto-pickup was carrying her inexorably toward Earth.

  37. We would tilt the can to such a degree that the lens in its position would pickup this curve of the label, and, of course, we would make an exposure, so anything goes in camera modification.

  38. He drove his pickup down on the opposite side and turned his lights on the target.

  39. Pickup shows a haze like in the reconstruct.

  40. The operator had been in charge of the attempted pickup on Evalee.

  41. Mongery, revealed by a quick left quarter-turn of the pickup camera, wore the same starchy white smock, the same Sam Browne belt glittering with the badges of the organizations and corporations for whom he was authorized to practice Literacy.

  42. The pickup must have been across an aisle from the box from whence the alarm had come; they could see one of Pelton's Illiterate clerks lying unconscious under it, and the handphone dangling at the end of its cord.

  43. He had a pickup on the twelfth floor, the floor just under the public landing stages, and at the foot of the escalators leading to the central executive block.

  44. But what's that got to do--" Prestonby was back at the TV, shifting from pickup to pickup.

  45. A moment later, after the screen flashed and went black twice, they were looking across the topside landing stage from a pickup at one corner.

  46. Ishmael Pickup wrung his dirty hands and answered, "Yesh, my dear!

  47. Pickup is suspicious," he said; "and I have had all the difficulty in the world to pave your way smoothly for you at the outset.

  48. It will be quite enough if Mr. Pickup will only send me word by you--Yes or No.

  49. Mr. Pickup and I looked at each other with very blank faces on receiving this agreeable piece of news.

  50. Mr. Pickup wisely closed his shop for a while, and went off to the Continent to ransack the foreign galleries.

  51. Mr. Pickup and I parted company unexpectedly, on compulsion.

  52. To his delight, an Enterprises pickup truck pulled up outside the laboratory later that afternoon and Hank rolled the queer-looking device inside.

  53. The three loaded the energy container into the pickup truck which had brought it to the hillside spot.

  54. Apparently the robot hadn't sensed him yet, but Alan didn't know what the effective range of its pickup devices was.

  55. In a flash, hundreds of the winged things erupted angrily from the hole in a swarming cloud, each part of which was a speck of life transmitting mental energy to the robot's pickup devices.

  56. The planet's double moon had risen and he could see a robot rolling slowly across the clearing in his general direction, blasting indiscriminately at whatever mind impulses came within its pickup range, birds, insects, anything.

  57. It's that '56 Ford pickup out there--the black one with the wood rack.

  58. His rig was a blue Ford pickup with a battered cap on the back.

  59. He was out the door and into an old blue pickup before she could think of anything else to say.

  60. Has anybody a portable audiovisual pickup that I can use to get some pictures in to my paper with?

  61. These folks almost inevitably have a pickup truck used to gather in their neighborhood's leaves and grass clippings on trash day and to haul home loads from local stables and chicken ranches.

  62. Now 2,500 pounds of humus is a groaning, spring-sagging, long-bed pickup load of compost heaped up above the cab and dripping off the sides.

  63. For a few dollars most small scale animal growers will cheerfully use their scoop loader to fill your pickup truck till the springs sag.

  64. Mr. Organic owned a pickup and loved to haul organic matter and to make and spread compost.

  65. Individuals who pay for trash pickup by volume are finding that they can save considerable amounts of money by recycling their own organic wastes at home.

  66. These proteinaceous, high-nitrogen and trace-mineral-rich materials are readily available at little or no cost in pickup load lots from canneries and sea food processors.

  67. Incidentally, Lane County understands that many gardeners don't have pickup trucks.

  68. Clean rivers in themselves might deter a good many people from cluttering them thus, and so might public education, stiff fines, and the provision of better municipal pickup and dumping facilities.

  69. He whistled at the sound-pickup of his screen and told his father about it.

  70. His father snapped on the screen and pickup of the jeep that was standing nearby.

  71. He saw it again on screen from a pickup atop the central tower.

  72. On the other side, several men were firing straight at the pickup of the other robot; it went dead, too, and there was a second explosion.

  73. He used that until the pickup was shot out.

  74. It was linked with a pickup in the bottom of a basketball-sized sphere driven by a small inertial engine that held the sphere hovering in the air above the game sanctuary on the northern tip of Manhattan Island.

  75. Those old steel rails themselves act as antennas for the broadcaster, and the rat's tail is the pickup antenna.

  76. At the captain's fingertips was a bank of controls that would allow him to switch from one pickup to another if necessary, so that he could see anything anywhere in the tunnels.

  77. Who is Hank, the fellow that came in with the pickup Ford?

  78. He had insisted upon being laid in the bed of a pickup truck and taken across the Slate Range to Trona, where we met him.

  79. Indian George happened to ride by the pickup and saw Sparkplug's feet sticking out.

  80. A few moments later Charlie drove his pickup to the pump, filled the gas tank and before we realized it, was swallowed in a cloud of dust.

  81. If he had my pickup he could take off a wheel, put on a belt and haul up the muck in one tenth the time, and instead of hoofing it in the sun he could ride in a cool cab and haul his supplies in.

  82. I supposed after the all night trip under such conditions Brown would go to bed but an hour later when I went to the store for some small purchase a woman climbed out of a pickup truck and with three small children, came in.

  83. She'd tried before, to trade her Ford pickup for Ben's burros, but he'd never shown a flicker of interest.

  84. Her dark eyes watched Charlie's and when she had finished Charlie called Joe Ryan and together they went across the road, climbed into a pickup truck and left in a hurry.

  85. A miner in an ancient pickup stopped for gas.


  86. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pickup" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acceleration; acquaintance; advance; advancement; advocate; aggravation; airing; amelioration; amendment; apprehension; arrest; arresting; ascent; backer; baggage; betterment; bitch; boost; bracer; broad; brother; cartridge; concentration; condensation; confidant; consolidation; deepening; detention; drive; enhancement; enrichment; exacerbation; exaggeration; explosion; familiar; fellow; fellowman; furtherance; getaway; harridan; headway; heightening; hussy; impetus; intensification; intercom; intimate; jade; lift; lover; magnification; mend; mending; needle; neighbor; partisan; phonograph; pickup; pinch; preferment; progress; progression; promotion; prostitute; quickening; recovery; reinforcement; repository; restoration; revival; ride; rise; slut; spin; stereo; strengthening; strumpet; stylus; supporter; sympathizer; tap; tart; thrust; tightening; trollop; truck; turntable; uplift; wanton; wench; whirl; whore