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 robot will bring this pod to the picker, and its screen tells them what item to grab.
  — Chavie Lieber, Vox, 20 Nov. 2018
• Over the last 20 years, stock pickers have had a dismal record.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• More than half of Cohen’s stock pickers have come through its program.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
• She also got paid to work as a picker at a neighboring hops field.
  — USA Today, 24 Oct. 2021
• Feel free to share any other details that might be useful to you-pickers.
  — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 14 May 2018
• Darryl Richardson of Tuscaloosa works as a picker at the center, and has been there since the beginning.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 7 Feb. 2021
• Celebrity picker Nick Lachey was the only member of the panel to give the nod to Jimbo Fisher’s team.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 6 Nov. 2021
• Every week the show enlists the help of a guest picker, usually someone with a direct tie to the host school or its area.
  — Theo Lawson, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• By the latter’s, the Eagles were the better bean-picker-uppers by a margin of twenty per cent.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• Case in point: The shortage this summer of crab pickers on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
  — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 19 June 2018
• Below a forested hillside, tea pickers in colorful saris moved among rows of electric-green bushes, as if the scene were set to high contrast.
  — Erin Vivid Riley, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024