pickings

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synonyms for pickings

On this page you'll find 154 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pickings, such as: spoils, boodle, gain, goods, haul, and plunder.

How to use pickings in a sentence

  • Tea Partiers looking for a third-party candidate to cast a protest vote are left with slim pickings.

    Tea Party on the Run | Benjamin Sarlin | October 6, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • The terrain is mucky, and the pickings are slim; patience and boredom are a part of the hunt.

    How to Catch a Giant Python | Catharine Skipp | February 28, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • He was in no shape to do anything, and unless he managed to find food and drink pretty soon, he would be easy pickings for IC.

    Insidekick | Jesse Franklin Bone
  • We endeavoured to get cookhouse jobs for the pickings to be had, but could not do so.

  • The small pickings left over and above, namely nine first prizes and twelve second, were shared by Alwida and Iernia respectively.

  • pickings put three balls precisely into the bubbling water, and drew alongside on his eighth shot.

    Murder in Any Degree | Owen Johnson
  • At the same moment, pickings and Booverman, as though carried off by the same cannon-ball, flattened on the green.

    Murder in Any Degree | Owen Johnson

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