pickings in English

noun
1
profits or gains that are made effortlessly or dishonestly, as by picking.
thieves found easy pickings from garages and garden sheds
2
remaining scraps or leftovers.
From there they would get first pickings at the garbage.
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Use "pickings" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "pickings" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "pickings", or refer to the context using the word "pickings" in the English Dictionary.

1. Are the pickings pretty good?

2. Description: Blueberries are picked several times as the fruit ripens with 2 to 5 pickings

3. 3 A satirist, you feel, would find rich pickings under such circumstances, and indeed Wang Shuo does just that.

4. Preparing to interview Cirkut – the Canadian producer, whose real name is Henry Walter – a quick Google delivers slim pickings.

5. 18 Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike.

6. 8 Pickings will be still better when the flood-waters abate on the upper reaches of the rivers, near the old gold-mining towns.

7. Appropriately enough, for a term originally used to denote a Scottish halfpenny first introduced in the 16th century, Bawbee (sometimes baw bee) has offered rich pickings for traditional Scots