Pickup

//ˈpɪkʌp//

"Pickup" in a Sentence (32 examples)

I remember riding home on a pickup truck last Sunday.

I remembered riding home in a pickup truck last Sunday.

He had an old pickup truck and a big, battered mower.

Then what is this, I wonder? If it isn't dodgy door-to-door sales, then could it be a new kind of pickup technique for the ladies?

Miguel, the pickup artist, rates women's looks on a scale from one to ten, claiming that he only hits on eights and up.

Tom is used to driving a pickup truck, but he's never driven one of those really big trucks.

He drives a pickup truck.

Tom bought a new pickup.

I took Tom to the hospital in the back of my pickup truck.

For long drives, a sedan is more comfortable than a pickup truck.

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This microphone has very weak pickup.

Franklin is beside himself, revving up the engine in the pickup.

I kept my window rolled up, eyes on the road, probably making the pickup man angrier with my silence.

Rather than join a basketball league, James decided to play pickup.

At lunch we had a game of pickup hockey.

Trevor, like an Aussie outbacker, eats snacks and a pickup meal of bread, cantaloupe, olives, mangoes, and melon.

Hey, thanks for the drink, but if this is a pickup, I'm not interested.

"Good Lord! I'm not stopping you from taking on all the pick-ups that come your way."

But what about the women who still go to bars — are they completely unaffected by these negative connotations? Hardly. No woman wants to think of herself as being an easy pick-up […]

Audball's latest pickup didn't seem to care where they were, or anything at all about alimony, palimony, or child support […]

The fourth seed was dominating her 20-year-old opponent with a series of stinging groundstrokes and athletic drive-volleys, striking again in game five when Paszek flicked a forehand pick-up into the tramlines.

Every step of the way you come across absolutely loads of aliens, pick-ups and new and weird obstacles to overcome.

Enter the graveyard if you want pick-ups, otherwise make a left under the archways to progress. When the pathway ends, you'll see two blocked-off tunnels and a switch between them.

The returns from the election show Apple Party candidate Jane Doe has made a pickup in the district of City West defeating Orange Party Incumbent Joe Smith

That's why the phone at the theater's on automatic pickup.

A computer voice tells her that she is supposed to make a pickup in Griffith Park and deliver it to a Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates franchise in Van Nuys.

Owner Philip Schaffart said a precoronavirus Tuesday typically brought in $2,500 in revenue. This past Tuesday, he said, that amount dwindled to $300 as his place was open only for pickup and delivery.

These signs are friendly reminders for road users to slow down during drop-off and pick-up.

The Willys-Overland won't be the fastest car on the road or have the best pickup, but it will have a top speed of eighty miles per hour, and its makers are confident that no car in its class will excel it in economy of fuel and upkeep.

The more highly vaporized the mixture your carburetor delivers, the more power you get, which means higher speed, better pickup, smoother idling, more miles per gallon.

Newsweek gave it a big write-up, as did many trade journals, including, ^([sic]) Editor and Publisher. And our articles get pickup as far west as the Tombstone Epitaph in Arizona.

Back then CPI staff demonstrated a reflexivity common to public relations, reflected for instance in Lewis's acknowledgment of the fact that the novelty factor might lead to more pickup.

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