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picked up

vb. (en-pastpick up)

Usage examples of "picked up".

He picked up a large piece of flat bread, dipped it in cucumber sauce, and stuffed it in his mouth.

Doc Savage picked up the chemicals and carried them into the kitchen.

While trying to remember precisely what, he picked up a small wine jug and belted the noble visitor smack on top of his iron boar.

I'd stopped at the little grocery store near the Southporttrain station on the way home and picked up a couple packages of fancy cookies.

When she picked up his robe, flakes of dry skin fell on her dress and fleas leaped into her face and hair, but she realized that she only had to hold the robe for a minute but the monk had to wear it all the time.