"Typically the real estate sector leads the economy in a recovery, meaning that it tends to pick up before some other things.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Pieces of gypsum broke off. The wind wore them away to a size small enough to pick up and carry for short distances.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

The robots had to pick up large balls and throw them into the trailers of opposing robots.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

A robot would then pick up rocks and soil, and send them back to earth for testing.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

She remembers one student who learned from her mother not to pick up a crying baby.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

The eleven owners of Pedal People not only pick up and remove trash and recycling.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

After they land,meteorites can pick up small organisms and chemicals from Earth's environment.

VOA: special.2011.06.22

All you had to do was pick up the gold from the ground.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

He would always foot the bill, and pick up the tab.

VOA: special.2010.12.05

They also pick up and transport food to home owners.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

And that's one of the things Jacob was noted for. His level of expression is so profound that even with a few strokes, he can pick up the action and show it to you".

VOA: special.2009.09.02

You want to keep spinning your mandrel so that it doesn't melt off the rod and you're going to heat your bead so that it's tacky enough to roll onto the frit and pick up pieces of the glass."

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Rains have started to fall and are expected to pick up fully in the next two or three weeks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

And there is a wildlife agent telling us 'go pick up your traps, I don't care what they have on them.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06