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 guest picker usually has a tie to the site of the game or the home team.
  — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 11 Sep. 2017
• 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 rest of the wide receiver class is for stock pickers.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2018
• Over the last 20 years, stock pickers have had a dismal record.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Prices: Sold by both size of box and number of pickers.
  — Shannon Eblen, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• Inside a pea picker’s tent in the middle of the morning.
  — Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2020
• But if there’s a champion nose-picker, it’s got to be the aye-aye.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
• Many are on the ground, and pickers can be used to grab apples from high branches.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• Reyn McGuire, who works as a picker, is a New York native and a mother of three.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 25 Jan. 2022
• Rick Pitino was the guest picker when GameDay was in Louisville in 2017.
  — Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal, 19 Sep. 2020
• 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
• With the first generation of pickers and singers gone, where to from here?
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2023
• Meet the stock pickers who pick stocks once and then stop—for a quarter of a century.
  — Jason Zweig, wsj.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Being a picker required a strong back and the ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• In the centers, pickers get the items, packers put them in boxes, shippers put the packages on the trucks.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2017
• The aisles are so narrow both stowers and pickers are not allowed to do U-turns.
  — Mike Glenn, Houston Chronicle, 1 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
• 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
• By contrast, most cone pickers in Georgia make about 21 cents per pound of cones.
  — John Wendle, National Geographic, 21 Dec. 2017
• Gone are Bulosan’s pea pickers, drifters and gamblers, hopping freight trains up and down the coast.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2018
• Zapp Hall A true flea market, Zapp Hall is a picker's delight.
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 24 Jan. 2020
• The picker for these resembles the one that already exists for adding widgets to the home screen.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Residents worked low-wage jobs as citrus pickers or cooks.
  — Kathryn Varn, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
• Fernandez traveled five hours south with her three siblings from the hamlet of Albion, near Rochester, where their parents are apple pickers.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024