How to use "picked" in a sentence

He picked up the phone

I picked up Doyle and put him across my shoulders, then I ran towards the hill

Somebody shouted, 'Back!' I picked up my machine gun and ran towards some trees.

He was holding a hand up to me - so I picked him up and ran back to the trees with him

Beckwith suddenly picked up his brandy-glass and threw it at Mr Slinkton

The man rose without another word, picked up his bag and stick, and left

After dinner, the bishop said goodnight to his sister, picked up one of the two candlesticks and, handing the other to his guest, said, 'I'll show you to your room, Monsieur.'

He turned back to the room, picked up his bag and took out a short iron bar, sharpened at one end

He grabbed it, hurried back to the spare bedroom, picked up his stick and bag, climbed out of the window, emptied the silver into his bag and threw the basket into the garden

Then, with a sudden movement, he bent down and picked it up

Miserably, she picked up a large, empty bucket that was almost as big as she was, and was walking with it to the door when Madame Thenardier stopped her.

Cosette, checking that no one was watching, reached out and picked up the doll

Valjean picked her up and ran with her through a confusing system of alleys until he came to a bridge

Realizing that one of the girls must have dropped it, he picked it up and called after them, but it was too late

Finally, Jondrette picked up a large picture that was leaning against the wall, and showed it to M

She picked up the piece of paper and handed it to her husband, who read it quickly.

Nervously, she picked it up and discovered an envelope underneath it

Valjean repeated the address until he could remember it, returned the wallet to Marius's pocket, picked Marius up again and continued his journey downwards towards the river

With these words, he picked up his hat and left.

But he picked the wrong casino.

He picked my casino.

She turned away, and before Sala could stop her, she picked up her yellow bag and disappeared through the center's doors.

As I picked up the menu, I knocked over the flowers on the table

I picked up the book he had given me

I dropped my gloves on the floor and Mrs Danvers picked them up with a twisted little smile on her lips

He picked up the paper

I picked it up

I picked up the phone

Maxim picked up a fallen flower and gave it to me

Maxim picked up a stone and threw it across the beach for Jasper.

He picked up a handkerchief.

Maxim smiled at me and picked up his paper

Maxim went back to his chair and picked up his paper

I picked up the slippers and held them in my hand.

I picked up the blue dress and put it on.

I went into the small room behind the library and picked up the telephone

He picked out a card and read it.

When she picked up the scattered sticks of chalk and the felt eraser, turning again to the chalkboard, she realized that two words were crudely printed on the black surface:

Furious, she went into the kitchen, picked up the telephone, and dialed Michael's number

She went to the sofa and picked up the photo that had dropped onto the cushions

She smiled when she thought of him, then picked up the sheaf of papers that Angela had given her, anxious to finish her work.

He picked up his brandy snifter from the low table in front of the sofa, and he sat on the edge of her desk

He was not a particularly large man, but he picked her up in his arms as if she were a child.

She returned to Danny's room and picked up the lurid magazine

She snatched her hand off the knob as if she had almost picked up a tarantula.

She leaned forward and picked something up from the floor between her feet

"We've got men going over the passenger lists of every outbound flight." He picked up an ivory-handled letter opener, turned it over and over in his hands

They don't know anything more about Project Pandora than what they picked up from that list of questions they took off Vince Immelman."

Alexander picked up the phone and gave the order.

Then as he had signed for the rental car and picked up the keys from the night clerk, he had kept one hand in a pocket of his coat, gripping the handgun he'd taken off Vince in Las Vegas - but there was no trouble.

He picked it up, opened it, and stared at her photograph

"The next time I read a story in the newspaper about some guy, who says he was picked up in a flying saucer and taken on a tour of the universe, I won't be so quick to laugh

Stopping the Explorer, he picked up the pistol from the seat between them, and he flicked off both safeties

Elliot picked up the gun as he brought the Explorer to a full stop at the barrier.

Hensen picked up one of the maps and turned it over in his hands

"My sentiments exactly." He picked up the pistol

Elliot picked up Danny

My hand shook as I picked it up because I knew by then that something must be terribly wrong

His head was still covered, and on his desk lay a typewritten sheet of paper, which I picked up

Then, as I picked up my pen, Lettice Protheroe wandered in.

And where's the weapon? I'd better call the police.' He picked up the telephone and gave the facts as simply as possible.

I picked it up - and recognized it as my pistol! And I just thought Anne must have taken it, meaning to shoot herself because she was so unhappy

I picked it up

I picked it up and put it in my pocket

She had picked up the paper and read it before I could stop her

But I picked up the other three letters and left the vicarage.

I picked it up.

I read it all, then picked up the telephone and asked the operator for the vicarage

Like a man in a dream, I picked up the receiver.

'He's not asleep! He's drugged!' He picked up the pillbox

He picked up the telephone and asked for Dr Haydock's number.

He picked up the pistol and the silencer, and left the forged letter with the time written on it in blue ink

When you met him, he had just picked up the stone to take it away.'

It did not use its Heat-Ray, but picked them up one by one and threw them into a large metal box which stuck out behind it.

In her book, Memoirs from a Women's Prison (1983), she wrote, "Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote