'pick up' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'pick up' with 20 example sentences.
- pick up verb
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: 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.