Sentence examples for a lightly picked from inspiring English sources

There were long, gradual fade-outs that selectively revealed a lightly picked acoustic guitar, a sustained cello line or brushes on the drums; there were crescendos of feedback courting chaos.

Onstage, the songs needed only his acoustic guitar, lightly picked or firmly strummed, and his unforced voice.

Three to five colonies were lightly picked from fresh overnight culture plate to suspend in 150 μl AE buffer.

John Grimm and Beverly Smith, a pair of musicians from northern Georgia, lightly pick at the strings of their guitars.

If you only lightly pick the string, you will probably reduce or eliminate the buzz.

She picked me up on a lightly travelled forty-five-mile-an-hour road.

Another good pick was a lightly browned gratin of fresh berries beneath a layer of zabaglione.

I leaned over and very quickly bit it lightly, and then picked up my SkyMall catalogue and began reading.

Seasoned and steamed, breaded and lightly fried, or picked clean for crab cakes, few crustaceans are more delicious.

The acoustic guitar is still there, now lightly strummed and picked in the sensitive-guy style of John Mayer, though it's usually just a preamble to a big crescendo and more reassuring bromides: "We don't need nothing, as long as we got love," he sings in a duet with Natasha Bedingfield.

The final yield was 450 pounds of freshly picked, lightly steamed, very local frozen carrots for winter meals like veggie stir-fry, peas-n-carrots and candied carrots.