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Useful Phrasal Verbs with PICK

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Learn Useful Phrasal Verbs with Pick in English.

Useful Phrasal Verbs with PICK

1. Pick ateat only small amounts of food because you do not feel hungry or do not like the food

E.g: Paige could only pick at her meal, forcing down a mouthful or two.

2. Pick up lift something or someone up

E.g: He picked up the letter and read it.

3. Pick upget up from the ground after you have fallen

E.g: Carol picked herself up and brushed the dirt off her coat.

4. Pick upbuy something or get it from a shop, …

E.g: I picked up an evening paper on the way home.

5. Pick upget an illness

E.g: I picked up a virus while I was in America.

6. Pick up collect something from a place

E.g: She just dropped by to pick up her mail.

7. Pick outchoose someone or something from a group

E.g: She picked out a navy blue dress.

8. Pick outrecognize someone or something in a group of people or things

E.g: She was able to pick out her father at the other side of the room.

9. Pick offpoint a weapon carefully at one person or animal in a group, and then shoot them

E.g: There were gunmen in some of the buildings who picked off our men as they went past.

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Useful Phrasal Verbs with PICK