Pica is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like eating or feeding. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Pica in a sentence
Related words
Pica meaning
- A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
- A magpie.
Using Pica
- The main meaning on this page is: A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand. | A magpie.
- Useful related words include: em, pica em, linear unit, genus pica.
- In the example corpus, pica often appears in combinations such as: pica is, johnson pica, agency pica.
Context around Pica
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pica
- In this selection, "pica" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, johnson, agency, audit, item, syndrome and disclosed stand out and add context to how "pica" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and father pica were also and citizenship agency pica. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pica" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pica
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pica is not typical and can be harmful. (8 words)
The types are: * sposojenka (loanword) fully assimilated; e.g. pica ('pizza'). (11 words)
Pica is an appetite for things that tend to have no nutritional value. (13 words)
The medical reason behind Karu's habit has not been verified yet but some medical experts credit it to pica syndrome in which people like to eat non-edible items such as dirt, paint, and metals, ANI reported. (38 words)
Father Otto noted that it would take place just 11 days after the centenary of Archbishop Sheen’s ordination at St. Mary’s Cathedral, where he and Father Cesarek and Father Pica were also ordained. (35 words)
Besides, he said, government also established a Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA) under the Federal Ministry of Finance, to clean up the federal payroll and pensions systems, across all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). (35 words)
Example sentences (16)
Persons renewing their passports are being reminded that they can utilise the online option provided by the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA).
Pica is not typical and can be harmful.
Some women report that without consuming the pica item, they feel uncomfortable or have nausea and vomiting.
The Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) is actively promoting the adoption of electronic passports (e-passports) among Jamaican citizens living abroad.
Father Otto noted that it would take place just 11 days after the centenary of Archbishop Sheen’s ordination at St. Mary’s Cathedral, where he and Father Cesarek and Father Pica were also ordained.
Pica is an appetite for things that tend to have no nutritional value.
Besides, he said, government also established a Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA) under the Federal Ministry of Finance, to clean up the federal payroll and pensions systems, across all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
The medical reason behind Karu's habit has not been verified yet but some medical experts credit it to pica syndrome in which people like to eat non-edible items such as dirt, paint, and metals, ANI reported.
The Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA) disclosed this in a report on Sunday in Abuja.
As MS&J was very influential in those days, many other type foundries were using the Johnson Pica.
The highest mountain of Catalonia, located north of the comarca of Pallars Sobirà is the Pica d'Estats (3,143 m), followed by the Puigpedrós (2,914 m).
The Johnson Pica was named after Lawrence Johnson who had succeeded Binny & Ronaldson in 1833.
The official standard approved by the Fifteenth Meeting of the Type Founders Association of the United States in 1886 was this Johnson pica, equal to exactly 0.166 inch.
These machines also introduced selectable "pitch" so that the typewriter could be switched between pica type (10 characters per inch) and elite type (12 per inch), even within one document.
The types are: * sposojenka (loanword) fully assimilated; e.g. pica ('pizza').
This differed from the use of these terms in printing, where they refer to the height of the characters on the page ("pica" designating ten horizontal lines per vertical inch).
Common combinations with pica
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: