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 | Wthornton@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Traders in the area often provide a market for pickers to sell their harvest.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2024
  • The Android photo picker prevents this by acting as a bridge between the user and the app.
    Paul Monckton, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024

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