Sentence examples for I pick off from inspiring English sources

They clean bowls, I pick off burnt corners (all the way around).

I picked off the bacon, as it smelled exactly like the fetal pigs we dissected in biology class.

She stopped and I picked off bits and pieces that had got caught in her cardigan.

"How many months should we wait to get the pill out of my system before we start trying?" I asked the gynecologist, whom I picked off my insurance list based on her gender and her proximity to my house.

She brought us paper bags of half-priced, imperfect chocolates whenever she visited, violet creams and Crunchies and Turkish Delight, my favorite — I picked off flakes of the chocolate with my teeth and then ate the jelly.

I'm just not quick enough to keep up on the first lap and obviously I picked off quite a few before the finish which was good but unfortunately the other heat was quite a bit slower and that would have suited me better," she said.

I picked off a dozen or so leaves and put them in my mouth.

Every time I picked off a runner I could hear the crowd screaming," adding that "I was pretty tired at the end.

A tiny pit near my temple from a chicken pox scab that I picked off when sequestered in bed, blissfully, with a stack of Nancy Drew books and glasses of ginger ale.

"We have a bit of time to rest and hopefully I can pick off where I left off in a couple of weeks.

And that I would pick off the beetles whenever I saw them.