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Example sentences for "pickups"

Lexicographically close words:
pickpocket; pickpockets; picks; pickt; pickup; picnic; picnicked; picnickers; picnicking; picnics
  1. Stanton stepped in, and various instrument pickups came out of the walls and touched him at various points on his body.

  2. There were two viewscreens from pickups aboard the 2500-foot battle cruiser.

  3. They might just think they got the ship; all the pickups would be smashed before they could see what really happened.

  4. They had the outside sound pickups turned as low as possible, and still the noise was deafening.

  5. The sound pickups were full of cheering, and the boom of a big gun at one of the top batteries, and the recorded and amplified music of a band playing the traditional "Spacemen's Hymn.

  6. I have found microphones and screen-pickups planted around.

  7. Lady, the auto-pickups are on tape-pilot.

  8. She switched filters into place, then pressed the button that rotated new pickups into position.

  9. They turned black instantly as the hull pickups burned out.

  10. Are there any spy pickups in this corridor?

  11. There are too many tricky spy pickups in that office of yours.

  12. There's no telling how many spy pickups Sellors planted here.

  13. The handwriting was jagged and untidy, for it was no easy feat to carry on a conversation for the benefit of any concealed pickups while writing a message.

  14. Rick knew from many previous pickups the altitude at which to fly.

  15. Scotty knew that Rick could not make pickups while flying toward the recess, so he was setting up the poles in such a way that Rick could fly parallel to the terrace wall in which the recess was located.

  16. I increased the memory storage banks again, put audio pickups and loudspeakers all over the place, and began teaching Lex to talk.

  17. Lastly, I set up one of the early TV pickups over the mail slitter and allowed every letter I received, every order, to be fed into the memory banks.

  18. Did you mention our pickups to Chmidd or Hozhet or any of the rest of the shaveheads?

  19. Andrey, I thought your people had planted those pickups where they couldn't be found," he said to Commander Douvrin.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pickups" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.