How to Use pick up after (someone) in a Sentence

pick up after (someone)

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  • The country braces for war in its own way and tends to pick up after itself.
    Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Rain chances Wednesday begin to pick up after the lunch hour giving the day an overall 40% chance of rain.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2022
  • That deal including a $10-million club option, which the Cubs will pick up after the Reds dropped him.
    Phil Rogers, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Rates will come down and activity should pick up after the Fed gets a few rate cuts under its belt.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Rain will pick up after 7 a.m. in the beaches of Sonoma, Marin and San Mateo counties while winds steadily blow stronger over the course of the morning.
    Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2023
  • North Texas leaders have a humble request: Please pick up after your pups.
    Dallas News, 3 May 2022
  • The campaign has been a quiet one thus far, but is expected to pick up after Labor Day.
    Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 30 July 2021
  • Sunshine will burn off most of the fog after 9 a.m. Another round of cold, northwest winds will be looking to pick up after 11 a.m.
    Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Delays and cancellations at Heathrow started to pick up after 2 p.m., and the lines for check-in, bag drop and security grew longer and longer.
    Sara Ruberg, WSJ, 13 July 2022
  • Exchanges’ revenues are reliant on retail trading, which has been slow to pick up after a wave of failures and scandals ripped through the sector last year.
    Muyao Shen, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The National Weather Service predicts rain will pick up after 10 a.m., with somewhere between a quarter-inch and three-quarters of an inch falling over the course of the day.
    oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Also, remember to pick up after yourself or your family when finishing a trip to the beach.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 1 July 2023
  • Season 21 will pick up after a massive cliffhanger that left audiences shocked.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Prices of major commodities have been on an upward trend since last year, when global demand started to pick up after the pandemic shock.
    Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ, 9 June 2021
  • The discussions come as European banking M&A is starting to pick up after years with few if any transactions.
    Sonia Sirletti, Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Executives are optimistic these kinds of trips will pick up after Labor Day, but the pace of the recovery remains an open question.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 15 July 2021
  • Owners who don’t pick up after their pets’ messes create extra work for maintenance staff.
    Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Businesses were just starting to see summer tourism pick up after Memorial Day.
    Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • In Denver on Friday, winds should pick up after 11 a.m. creating areas of blowing dirt and dust, according to the weather service.
    Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Always pick up after your pet — dog waste left behind smells terrible and attracts flies, ruining the trail for everyone else.
    Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Owners must remain with their dogs and pick up after them; there's also a 45-minute time limit and current license and vaccination tags are required.
    Robin Soslow, Chron, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Homeowners know all too well how important a powerful vacuum cleaner is to pick up after messy kids and shedding pets.
    Lily Gray, PEOPLE.com, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Something similar happened in 2013, when seismicity appeared to drop only to pick up after a year.
    Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
  • For some lifelong athletes, the decline in running performance is due to an accumulation of injuries, even the small ones that many runners pick up after a lifetime of pounding the pavement.
    Washington Post, 21 May 2021
  • This fourth Maisel season is currently filming around New York City, which will pick up after our flawed heroine is fired from her international tour opener gig.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Anyone who fumes at neighbors who don’t pick up after their dogs can identify with the surveillance-welcoming residents of Seine-Saint-Denis.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Rain and wind pick up after sunset Saturday in Puerto Rico, with the worst conditions lasting through Sunday afternoon.
    ABC News, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Both laws work to pick up after a pandemic-era federal program that provided universal free lunches in schools across the nation ended earlier this year.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022
  • For now, the recent run of acquisitions is helping extend a nascent recovery in global dealmaking, with activity starting to pick up after volumes plunged the second quarter.
    Nabila Ahmed, Bloomberg.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • New Jersey's newest Covid-19 wave began to pick up after Murphy, under pressure from a pandemic-weary public and the business community, began loosening restrictions to slow the spread of the virus just as the vaccine rollout got underway this year.
    NBC News, 1 Apr. 2021

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