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'pick up' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'pick up' with 20 example sentences.


pick up verb

: take and lift upward

: take up by hand

: give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift

: gather or collect

: get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

: get in addition, as an increase

: take into custody

: buy casually or spontaneously

: register (perceptual input)

: lift out or reflect from a background

: meet someone for sexual purposes

: fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

: improve significantly; go from bad to good

: perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily

: eat by pecking at, like a bird

: gain or regain energy


  • I'm tired of picking up after you.
  • He picked up that habit from his father.
  • I'm going to pick up the kids at school.
  • Pick up the pencil from the floor.
  • The taxi picked up two passengers.
  • She picked up beautiful stones.
  • We picked up where we left off.
  • Where did she pick up those old coins?
  • Be sure to pick up some milk.
  • You're picking up some bad habits from us.
  • When do they pick up the trash?
  • He picked up the book.
  • I have to go pick up the kids.
  • Where do I go after I pick up my baggage?
  • My mother stopped her sewing and picked up her book.
  • I picked up a pencil and started to write.
  • Pick up my favorite magazines at the gift shop.
  • Don't pick up that phone.
  • She bent down and picked up the coin.
  • Tell him to pick up the phone.
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