The situation is gradually moving towards a resolution.tatoeba
Additional Examples
彼は通りで何か白いものを拾い上げた。
He picked up something white on the street.tatoeba
彼は赤い石を拾い上げた。
He picked up a red stone.tatoeba
彼は石を一つ拾い上げた。
He picked up a stone.tatoeba
彼は床からハンカチを拾った。
He picked up a handkerchief from the floor.tatoeba
遺骨を拾う時の行為を連想させるので、忌まれる。
Avoided because it reminds us of picking up funeral ashes.wiki
Real voices: how native speakers say it
These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.
彼はライフルを拾い上げ、それで標的をねらった。
かれはらいふるをひろいあげ、それでひょうてきをねらった。He picked up a rifle and aimed it at the target.
目の前に飛んできたフリスビー拾ったら、犬が猛ダッシュでこっち来た
めのまえにとんできたふりすびーひろったら、いぬがもうだっしゅでこっちきたI picked up a frisbee that flew in front of me, and a dog came rushing at me at full speed.