pick out
verb
Examples of pick out in a Sentence
Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024
Rice — a North Richland Hills, Texas native — was the Chiefs’ second-round pick out of SMU in 2023.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2024
The former second-round pick out of Houston had seven sacks as a 17-game starter for the Ravens in 2021.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
Evelyn and her mom picked out a fluffy, light-pink dress from a children’s store for the baby to wear on adoption day.
—Amber Ferguson, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
Birds can discriminate among hundreds of millions of colors; bees pick out different flowers by sensing their electrical field; elephants communicate over long distances with infrasound rumbles; cows can perceive the entire horizon around them without moving their head.
—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
The sky is the limit for the 24-year-old former second-round pick out of the University of Virginia.
—Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
Leo thought putting together a Free Blockbuster Stand for his Louisville neighborhood would be a great way to give back and share the nostalgia of picking out movies with others.
—Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2024
The orientation of those vibrations enables scientists to pick out vivid details of magnetic field lines and map their characteristics.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
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Word History
1540, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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