Used in a Sentence

pickens

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pickens.

Editorial note

Since Pickens seemed to have been trying to sell Ogallala water, it'd be strange time to unleash it.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A city, the county seat of Pickens County, South Carolina, United States.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pickens gathered in one view.

noun

A city, the county seat of Pickens County, South Carolina, United States.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pickens.

noun

A city, the county seat of Pickens County, South Carolina, United States.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

1

Since Pickens seemed to have been trying to sell Ogallala water, it'd be strange time to unleash it.

2

My notebook has no fingerprint reader, and no infrared camera, so the Windows Hello alternatives are slim pickens.

3

Boone Pickens was trying to monopolize water rights and was using renewables as way to get them.

4

Strangelove, with Slim Pickens in his cowboy hat stradling the bomb, yee-ha-ing, and riding it to armageddon.

5

Boone Pickens is also the leading guy in Texas who is deploying wind farms, and is using the same tactics.

6

My trust in government erodes if Bob Pickens isn't in jail by noon tomorrow.

7

Slim Pickens does the right thing when he rides the bomb into hell.

8

Boone Pickens is involved (so you ought to know something isn't quite right).

9

T Boone Pickens was one of the most conservative energy investors that ever lived, and he was slapping up windmills left and right.

10

Boone Pickens is the one who's most likely to turn out right.

11

Does anyone know if this has any tangential relationship to the fact that billionaires like t.boone pickens are buying up water rights across the country?

12

The Excel thing started out as someone else's funny tweet and turned into me riding the bomb down while waving my cowboy hat, Slim Pickens style.

Quote examples

1

"It's very difficult for the experience of the guests to exceed the experience of the staff," Pickens says.

2

I agree that people should read Jeremy Pickens's post at IR Gupf--that's why I wrote a "quick bite" on my blog which a teaser excerpt and a link.

3

If it's just your company or some trifling consortium trying to develop nuclear energy advances in a "free industry" environment, the guy who is just slapping up windmills, [T Boone Pickens RIP], is just gonna mop the floor with you.

4

James Sterngold’s NYT story on their reintroduction is well worth a read, featuring as it does comments against the new rules from both Felix Rohatyn (”The one-share, one-vote rule is pretty fundamental to the market”) and T Boone Pickens (”Let’s face it, managements want this because they want to entrench themselves.

Proper noun examples

1

One of my favorite movie monologues of all time is the speech Slim Pickens' character gives to the crew when he realizes that their mission isn't an exercise.

2

Boone Pickens, a man who made his billions in oil (and perpetrating some of the shadiest schemes on the planet), and then wants to use the same schemes to make even more billions in wind.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use pickens in a sentence?

Since Pickens seemed to have been trying to sell Ogallala water, it'd be strange time to unleash it.

What does pickens mean?

A city, the county seat of Pickens County, South Carolina, United States.

What part of speech is pickens?

pickens is commonly used as noun.