picky

Example Sentences

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Angelenos will also find their ballot crowded with other tax hike proposals, which may leave some voters feeling picky.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

It is made even more challenging because of how picky some butterfly species and their caterpillars are about what they eat.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Vanguard Wellington does own some of these, she says, but adds that she’s picky because yields don’t always reflect all the new debt these companies have been taking on.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The concept of being picky was born, though it was still so new a word that food marketers put it in quotation marks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

“The last place wouldn’t let me in because I’m too much of a picky eater. It’s not like this place. You can’t pick your food.”

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini