How to Use picker in a Sentence

picker

noun
  • Bring your berry picker and check out the south sides of the hills.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The takeaway for stock-pickers, though, is far from clear-cut.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There have been four guest pickers with UM ties over the years.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The robot will bring this pod to the picker, and its screen tells them what item to grab.
    Chavie Lieber, Vox, 20 Nov. 2018
  • The guest picker usually has a tie to the site of the game or the home team.
    Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Over the last 20 years, stock pickers have had a dismal record.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Fans had some strong reaction to the show's choice for guest picker.
    Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Many are on the ground, and pickers can be used to grab apples from high branches.
    Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • She also got paid to work as a picker at a neighboring hops field.
    USA Today, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Those strategies won’t cut it in the next four years, which will be a stock picker’s market.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Feel free to share any other details that might be useful to you-pickers.
    Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 14 May 2018
  • Child jury pickers like Scrughan were a feature of some state laws.
    Michael Waters, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
  • For fruit that's out of reach, an apple picker can make the job easier.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Ira and Myrle hoped to find work as cotton pickers.
    Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Meet the stock pickers who pick stocks once and then stop—for a quarter of a century.
    Jason Zweig, wsj.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • With the first generation of pickers and singers gone, where to from here?
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2023
  • More than half of Cohen’s stock pickers have come through its program.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
  • Your best bet is to call the farms or follow them on social media to see when each opens to pickers.
    Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 15 June 2017
  • But this year half of them did not arrive, and many of his neighbors were scrambling for pickers too.
    David Culver, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
  • As the danger drew closer, grape pickers spread word of the threat and helped neighbors pack their homes.
    Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2017
  • But Scrughan was about to head off to school, and his stint as a jury picker was thus winding down.
    Michael Waters, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
  • Alkins said the cherry-picker with the two workers in it was able to drive forward but could not move up or down.
    Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • The aisles are so narrow both stowers and pickers are not allowed to do U-turns.
    Mike Glenn, Houston Chronicle, 1 July 2019
  • And again, another position that is hard to fill are those pickers.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • And like a hacker, a good picker doesn’t break the lock with brute force but with subtlety and finesse.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2018
  • The son of an orange picker, Rivera grew up in a wooden house built from the planks of old boxcars.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • By contrast, most cone pickers in Georgia make about 21 cents per pound of cones.
    John Wendle, National Geographic, 21 Dec. 2017
  • At the height of the season, there can be as many as 25 pickers helping to harvest the plants.
    Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Tell them to use a mouse to adjust the color of a big spot on the screen, like a color-picker tool in reverse.
    Adam Rogers, WIRED, 8 July 2019
  • Gone are Bulosan’s pea pickers, drifters and gamblers, hopping freight trains up and down the coast.
    New York Times, 2 May 2018

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