pick
verb (used with object)
to choose or select from among a group.
unpickable
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a word derived from
pick.
Example Sentences
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But Ruth says she put her principles into her unpickable pocket, and just took her porte-monnaie in her hand.
From We Girls: a Home Story by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
A guardian, when you had signed your name again, unlocked three unpickable, incombustible, and gunpowder-proof locks in a massive steel door, and you were admitted, assuming always that the hour was between nine and six.
From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett
Chubb and Hobbs of England made important improvements in tumbler locks, which for a long time were regarded as unpickable.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
On the utilitarian side of our subject, industrial history records that we are indebted to the Chinese for unpickable locks of the lever and tumbler principle; and to the Dutch for the combination or letter-lock.
From The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood
Their result is a handsome parade-place,—a pretty stone toy,—an unpickable lock to an inclosure nobody wants to enter,—a navy-yard for the creation of an armament which has no commerce to protect.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various
