What is "handpick"

Usage examples of "handpick".

Tennessee and North Carolina lost so many police officers, I asked Colonel Cody to handpick a battalion of men from his own people and from those units of the regular military who remain loyal to us.

She had been handpicked by General Rende, who ran the special unit involved with the investigation of art and antiquity thefts, the Tutela Patrimonio Culturale.

This is especially good for insects that are too small for you to see or handpick effectively, like aphids, thrips and spider mites.

I thought it was something mystical--like Ben handpicking the man who could take care of me.

The chief of staff and I talked for a few minutes in the hallway He went out of his way to tell me that I had been handpicked for the investigation because of my expertise with high-profile killers, especially psychopaths.

The office complex that was strictly off-limits to everyone except Sanchez and his handpicked staff.

A pulse giving the location of your beacon was received four years ago, and the Five B, with Captain Caleb Rustin, your daughter and her companion, and six other handpicked crew set off by Interstellar Drive to rescue you.

The Grand Ayatollah had known Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri, the former speaker of the Majlis-i-Shura, Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly, and former President Hashemi Rafsanjani's handpicked successor, since before the Revolution, and had watched General and so knew that the only thing between them was their uniforms.

The four gold suns on his purple silicon polymer uniform marked him as the commandant of the Haaar-kyut, Khagggun handpicked by Eleusis and trained by Morcha himself, loyal and answerable only to the regent.

The actual enforcement operations will be conducted by a thirty-eight-man group of handpicked U.

Lady Rosario has him in a maximum-security ward with handpicked Wasps watching him round-the-clock, and Captain Okanami thinks he'll pull through, but he'll be hospitalized for months.

Three floors below, Bauer was greeted by Klaus Jaunich, the head of his handpicked research staff.

Initially, Gurney had been assigned to the cliffs of Mount Ebony, where he and his crewmates used sonic blasters and laser-heated handpicks to chip away slabs of blue obsidian, a translucent substance that seemed to suck light from the air.

Chivvin and Twills made it through before Labad and a few handpicked Wizards closed the breach.