pickings

How To Use pickings In A Sentence

• This was a sad day indeed for the big bad wolf of the banking world, and not just because it must forego those rich pickings it planned to cream off from two billion cash machine transactions a year.
• There were rich pickings to be had from the stock market.
• A figure that makes for significant private label pickings for food formulators. ConfectioneryNews RSS
• This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement.
• Expensive golf equipment makes rich pickings for thieves, and the lucrative nature of golf crime was highlighted by a recent theft from the pro shop at the Golf Club.
• For those that fail, the remaining pickings may be small.
• Of course, in a scavenging post-modernist climate, art history offers rich pickings. Times, Sunday Times
• For the time being, there was a minor bounty on his head, which led him to be prime pickings for the two partners.
• Mr Weston, a lifelong biker, said: " Bikers are easy pickings.
• The street-sellers are lured to the town by the rich/easy pickings that are to be had from foreign tourists.