pick out
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies, / The devil tere their tunges and pike out their ies!"
- "Madame Defarge herself picked out the pattern on her sleeve with her toothpick, and saw and heard something inaudible and invisible a long way off."
- "Theſe broken fragments, John de Fordun, vvho lived in the fourteenth century, collected vvith a pious induſtry, and from them picked out materials, vvhich he formed into a regular hiſtory."
- "Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves."
- "Oliver had an erratic and often bewildering afternoon and, just to pick out one incident, the images of Joe Hart putting his forehead uncomfortably close to the official are certainly far from the norm."
- "The young birds cry out for food, and the parents returning from the sea manage to pick out their own amid a mass of lookalikes."