How to Use pickup in a Sentence

pickup

1 of 3 noun

• The fee pays for garbage pickup.
• The truck is scheduled to make a pickup today.
• The school bus was late for its afternoon pickup.
• The pickup’s front end was partly in a turn lane next to the lane the tow truck was driving in.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• Molitor was in a pickup with Fox and had recorded a brief video of the house.
  — Ed White The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2023
• On third and five, Uiagalelei runs up the middle on a QB draw for a pickup of 13 yards and a first down to the 36.
  — Nick Daschel | [e-mail], oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
• The driver lost control of the sedan and spun into the path of large Dodge pickup in the eastbound lane.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2023
• And on some large pickups, the hoods are almost at eye level for many adults.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
• Fain grabbed a microphone and jumped onto the bed of a Ram pickup.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Police say they were found in a red pickup that was trapped in 25 feet of water.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• As bystanders rushed to pull the driver from the wreckage, the pickup caught fire, the officer said.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Both pickups are built at Wentzville Assembly which was idled during the strike for the full 46 days.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2024
• Clark was in the Ram pickup with his girlfriend, according to Smith.
  — Marilyn Heck, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• Sephora has in-store pickup at some of its 500+ U.S. stores, making this gift a great last-minute buy.
  — Bellamy Richardson, wsj.com, 8 Nov. 2023
• At the same time a pickup headed east broadsided the car, police said.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2023
• The streamer’s pickup comes just a week after the series premiered.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
• Some parents were already on their way to work and had to hurry to figure out pickup plans and child care.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
• Fox 5 San Diego video from the scene early Wednesday showed a red pickup parked near the intersection with its doors open.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2023
• Life as a parent of two sons had become a series of child-care drop-offs and pickups with her husband in Chicago’s West Loop.
  — Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• Officers found a Toyota pickup had lost control and struck a wooden flower box in the grass area in the middle of the boulevard.
  — cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
• Earlier this week, Ram released a short video teasing a new pickup truck.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 10 May 2023
• My conclusion is Niles should fund garbage pickup for homeowners and cease funding the free bus.
  — Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2023
• Click here to order it for delivery or pickup from your local Lowe's.
  — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2024
• If that wasn’t impressive enough, the pickup that finished atop the race’s premier 4×4 class was completely stock.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2023
• The team also took the bold step of making a fully electric version of the country's best-selling vehicle, the F-150 pickup truck.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2024
• Those picking up travelers are asked to park in cell phone lots until their parties are ready for pickup.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 10 May 2023
• While some offer delivery at a hefty price, there are free pickup options.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• Of the three player pickups, García’s contract was the highest value at $4.25 million.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• The graphic footage of Louk, unconscious, stripped down to her underwear in a pickup truck, made its way around social media.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
• The newcomer, known simply as the Telo, measures a scant 152 inches in length yet has the capacity of a standard pickup.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 June 2023

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pickup

2 of 3 adjective

• What's the pickup scene like in this city?
• He plays with pickup bands at nightclubs.
• The man and his son chased after the thieves in a pickup truck, police said.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
• The front seats of a pickup truck are the safest place on the vehicle to be in the event of a collision.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 28 June 2023
• Sporty types tend to take to the field, court, or pool to get a pickup game or several laps in.
  — Mark Stock and Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 2 Dec. 2022
• The pickup truck theft took place on July 14 in Dorchester.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 31 July 2023
• None of the SUVs and pickup trucks built at the three plants are top sellers for the three automakers.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
• The suspects left the store in a pickup truck which was reportedly stolen.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2024
• While most need to be shipped, some have pickup options to get your dad's gift safely to him even quicker.
  — Brittany Vincent, SELF, 14 June 2022
• The tornado tossed two pickup trucks into a pond and knocked over a fish truck, spilling fish across the road, the weather service said.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 7 Feb. 2022
• In video footage of the encounter, Mr. Arbery could be seen running as his pursuers chased him in two pickup trucks.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• The two played together for the first time in pickup games that left an impression on Lillard.
  — oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2022
• One of his neighbors told him that while driving down Route 1, a person flagged him down to tell him that a cat had jumped out of his pickup bed.
  — Esteban Parra, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
• The driver of a pickup truck was heading east on Seventh and struck the pedestrian at Maynard.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2024
• Civilians in Gaza crammed possessions into cars, taxis and pickup trucks in a mass rush toward the south.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• On the day of the removal, there were pickup trucks to help people relocate, and the city was willing to hold belongings for up to 30 days, Vasquez said.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2023
• Bailey Zimmerman was busy with a union job and tricking out pickup trucks in his spare time just three years ago.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023
• The Meadows Turkey Bowl is back, a pickup football game that has grown to raise a lot of money for charity.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
• The group, almost all men, ride in cars and in the back of pickup trucks to a forest about an hour away to retrieve the tree already selected for the ritual.
  — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• There were just a lot more pickup trucks and screen doors in her lyrics back then, and a little more Natalie Maines in her delivery.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 13 Dec. 2022
• Preston turned heads during pickup games in September only to injure a foot on the eve of camp.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2022
• Bowman then fired two more shots outside the school before driving away in a pickup truck, police said.
  — Adrian Sainz, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• Texas is one of Senate Democrats’ few pickup opportunities next year, and a tough one at that.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 5 May 2023
• Barbara Toth's husband Jim almost died when a teen driver in a pickup truck sent him flying off his bike a few years back.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2024
• The pickup truck veered off the roadway and overturned, leaving Olson trapped inside, police said.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
• This year, the drive was a hybrid, with a few pickup locations around the area, plus some direct deliveries.
  — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2022
• Delivery can be arranged and there is a pickup location near Chase Field in Phoenix.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
• Alderete allegedly cut the Jackie Robinson statue off at the ankles and put it on a pickup truck, police said.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2024
• Armed men on pickup trucks can be seen in the background, seemingly keeping a safety perimeter around him.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
• Other former residents traveled in on foot, some on bicycles, some on pickup trucks and some on the back of donkeys.
  — Zeena Saifi, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024

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pick up

3 of 3 verb

• Please pick up your cell phone and give them a call to check-in.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 5 Feb. 2024
• The video then shows Luckette pick up a chair and throw it across the bar at Diong.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
• Miller arrived at the scene to pick up Miles, per Miller’s lawyer.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 15 Mar. 2023
• There was even a Nike shoe bar where guests could pick up a pair of Nike shoes for the day.
  — Adam England, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2023
• Riding the hot hand Butler picked up his fourth foul with 10:48 to go and went to the bench.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2023
• But by her side through it all—and ready to pick up the baton—was Shar Dubey.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2023
• Place an order by Oct. 2 to pick up from 2-7 p.m. Oct. 5.
  — Samantha Nelson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
• If the ball is hit to the farther half of the net, sprint to pick up the ball and run toward the other side of the net.
  — Luis Velarde, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• One of us has to pick up where the other person left off.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2022
• And there’s a few things Olympia has picked up on without her mom’s help.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
• Tee Higgins and Tyler Boyd will have to pick up the slack in Chase’s absence.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
• This year, indie efforts have helped to pick up the slack.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
• One more way to do your due diligence that might seem a bit old school: pick up the phone.
  — Bianca Lambert, Essence, 11 Jan. 2023
• Dominique Hutchison, 32, swung by the shed to pick up items for her niece and nephew.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2024
• Hoover rallied from an 18-11 first-quarter deficit to pick up the win.
  — al, 12 Dec. 2022
• Gas prices picked up 1% from May but are down nearly 27% from a year ago.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 12 July 2023
• Over 7,000 Amazon shoppers picked up this Lego set in the past month.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
• About an hour later, Ephron returned to the scene and picked up two casings off the street.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Use your chopsticks to pick up a dumpling from the steamer basket and hold the dumpling over a spoon.
  — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2022
• Aiken then seemed poised to pick up the plurality on the fourth vote.
  — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
• If the slope is less than 25 degrees, there might be little slips, but the snow won't pick up speed.
  — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2024
• Perhaps the new movie will pick up on that hanging plot thread.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2023
• So this may not have been the most active year so far, but that doesn't mean things won't pick up.
  — Katharine Jose, Chron, 27 Aug. 2022
• The city will not pick up any loose leaf piles with debris such as rocks, sticks or garbage in them.
  — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
• Things like the chips bill could help U.S. companies pick up more of the market.
  — Bailey McCann, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022
• The third to arrive is the O’Connor daughter who drops by to pick up a fur coat from her own closets.
  — Jack D. Grant, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2022
• Ibrahim jumps off the donkey cart, picks up a stick, and ties a white undershirt to it.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Hey, swing state voters, pick up the damn phone already!
  — Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
• Raised in a household of audiophiles, Thomas picked up the trumpet at 11 and went on to become an authority in his field.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 10 Mar. 2025
• The Norway international has missed City’s last two games after picking up a knee problem in the win over Newcastle United earlier this month.
  — Nnamdi Onyeagwara, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Mar 2025