picks up

After everything is in order and the call has been placed, Hitch picks up the receiver and says “How do you do?”

Hitch picks up his cane, pushes her aside, and laboriously tries to get to his feet, saying, “I'll do it myself.”

David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012, picks up after Hockney has already become an established artist.

As momentum against ISIS picks up, they may be emerging from the shadows.

The second story, which really picks up steam in the latter half of the book, is the race to land without a parachute.

Up in the town the merchant's house resounds as the man with the sea-boots picks up a stone and hammers at the wall.

He had talent of a kind, the talent that picks up swiftly what it hears and readily retails it for its own.

Mubagrung ang awtu kun mupik-ap na, The car zooms the moment it picks up speed.

Delia rises, goes to table and picks up water carafe which she replaces on refectory table up L.

Th' ol' woman doesn't read, but she picks up what's goin' on.