Picked

The committee picked the site for the exhibition.

If he had not picked me up, I would not be here now.

I picked up some French.

The bus picked up the speed gradually.

I don't know how, but I just picked it up naturally.

My father picked up the tab for dinner, which came to $150.

The taxi picked up two passengers.

The child picked up a small stone.

The express train picked up speed gradually.

Then they picked dandelions and put them in their ears.

the picked dogfish

He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.

Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:

[…] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.

A very good way to take them, is to drive a stake into the ground about four foot high above the surface of the earth: Let the stake be made picked at the top, that the jay may not settle on it.