pick up
Example Sentences
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Pick-up horses are generally ridden into the arena to help a rodeo competitor get off a bucking animal.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
Pick-up trucks filled with survivors, including children, drove up to the front of a local hospital.
From Reuters • Mar. 7, 2021
Pick-up trucks packed with young men are going around neighbourhoods to rescue trapped people as many complain that the authorities are not doing enough.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2014
Pick-up potential: Chipotle's not your prototypical pick-up joint, but the cashier got friendlier and friendlier each time I ordered.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2012
Then into the telephone: “New York license so-and-so. Yes. Pick-up truck with camper top. Yes—a dog.”
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
