Sentence examples for He picked away from inspiring English sources

He invited Paris's scientific élite to gather and watch as he picked away at the fossil with a fine needle.

He picked out Steven Naismith, who drifted away from two defenders before unleashing a low shot past Neuer but agonisingly a matter of inches wide of the post.

Gulliver looked down to check he had just picked away the last traces of his own dabs.

The remains of the collapsed trade center buildings have been picked away, but the wounds they created are still visible.

"I picked away at the layer of slime to reveal the most beautiful fish I had ever seen," she recalled.

Justice Antonin Scalia picked away at Messinger's argument, asking whether any bargaining between the government and its employees was political.

UCLA picked away at McQuillin, starting with a walk from Garcia in the second inning.

"Give the Cardinals credit, they are fine-tuned and they pick away at you," Colletti said.

He tried to pick away at the cinder-block wall.

Instead he has been picking away slowly at GM's problems.The row over the strike obscured some changes that are beginning to push GM into the modern age.

Convinced that the sovereignty umbrella had done little to improve Argentina's chances of regaining control over the islands, he has been picking away at it ever since.