pickings
Example Sentences
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For royal watchers, Trooping the Colour is rich pickings.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
We are small fry by most standards, but I can imagine state lawmakers looking at us as easy pickings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
But for 2½ hours she got the error message and could not access the pool of tickets until 12:30 p.m., by which time, she said, “the pickings were slim.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Squirrels should be smart enough to take the easy pickings over the puzzle box.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026
That morning there were a lot of pickings; I soon filled the small basket I had with me.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
