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pick up
verb as in lift, raise
verb as in obtain, find
verb as in improve
Example Sentences
Fighters laugh as they ride on the back of a pick-up truck, speeding past a row of nine dead bodies and driving towards the setting Sudanese sun.
“She’s the one who always urged us to play,” he told the Dayton Daily News in 2023, “and sometimes she’d be right out there with us in the yard when we were having pick-up games.”
Fed Gov. Cook mentioned that she sees risks of job weakness being greater than inflation pick-up, while San Francisco Fed President Daly said she would want to “keep an open mind” about a December rate cut, Maybank analysts note.
Because it is no longer safe for her family to live in the home they fled 11 years ago, she and many others like her are bussed into Dalwa village from a pick-up point in the state capital, Maiduguri, early in the morning.
He also feels the longer day prevents the need to rush for pick-up time.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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