[
US
/ˈpɪkɪt/
]
NOUN
- American Confederate general known for leading a disastrous charge at Gettysburg (1825-1875)
How To Use Pickett In A Sentence
- For example, James Longstreet's protest to Robert E. Lee on the infeasibility of Pickett's Charge is well-known.
- The chief engineer of Pickett (the slide rule company) was undoubtedly faced with retraining for a position in a different industry.
- Your correspondent thoroughly enjoyed reading this 32 page history book which was written by Douglas Pickett and beautifully illustrated by Harry Tucker.
- Soon I expect other players will be following the trail blazed by Cipriani, Henson and Ben Foden – currently dating Una Healy from the Saturdays, apparently, and with a taxi-rank scuffle to his name already this year – and be opening city-centre nitespots named Rockafellas, or unisex fashion boutiques selling mauve Crimplene bell-bottoms, being photographed cuddling Old English sheepdogs and swaying about embarrassedly in the background as Pickettywitch launch a TV comeback. Danny Cipriani and playboy players are dragging rugby into the 70s | Harry Pearson
- For the foot-tapping, we must turn to the folksy Balkan dance melodies, the bumpy 'New Age' arrangement of a passamezzo by Mainerio and Pickett's bongo-enhanced version of a chanson by Le Jeune. AvaxHome
- Pickett says that some ten percent of video views are now seen on mobile devices -- and the move to connected TV's is making the term "online video" less germane as videos appear on multiple platforms. Andy Plesser: Exclusive: YouTube's Tom Pickett and Lance Podell on YT's Fast Expanding Creator Network
- Not coincidentally, this was the time Luther Pickett arrived on the scene. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
- The truth is that Pickett was cited for gallantry and was breveted twice in fighting in Mexico.
- Energy and concentration, however, had gurgled down into my shoes, leaving me about as spirited as a Johnny Reb after Pickett's charge.
- The Picketts dance deftly, two-stepping through songs not made for a southern accent.