"pick" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For example, he washed cars, picked lettuce in the Imperial Valley, and served as a bouncer at a Santa Monica pier.
- Here was a seemingly mentally competent adult recommending that we force a largely minority population to go out in the fields and pick lettuce and cotton.
- Proposition 187 doesn't matter to the illegal workers picking lettuce in Fresno and oranges near San Diego.
- "You're a mess," he said, picking noodles and wilted lettuce out of my hair.
- "The impression she was giving me was that I didn't write about someone picking lettuce in the field."
- Had his great-grandfather not decided to come to California and pick lettuce, might he have grown up in such a place?
- "I was down in the garden picking lettuce, and it looked to me as though the plane missed the Wheelers' chimney by inches."
- In one widely remarked-upon incident, he insisted to a union group that none of them would be willing to pick lettuce for fifty dollars an hour.
- In 1985, his parents left their children with grandparents and worked illegally in California picking lettuce.
- Visitors will go into the fields to pick tomatoes, lettuce, squash and herbs, to eat on the spot or take home.
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