Sentence examples for first picked at from inspiring English sources

A sudden whiff wafts forward, apprising me that she's woken up - the stale smell of ruddy potato crusted pan fried cod that she first picked at for dinner last night at Maxwell's in Goose Bay, and has been carting around ever since, for a moment just like this.

As members of the cabinet, on the other hand, they can usually expect to be re-elected as often as they like, and the longest-serving get first pick at the portfolios.

The RCE scheme is described as follows: the client first picks at random a key L and then computes ciphertext (C_1=E(L, F)) and (C_2=Loplus K), where K is the hash value of file H(F).

Shockwaves were first picked up at a seismic station 230 miles away in Mudanjiang, China, where the needle sprang into action less than a minute after the blast.

They first picked up attention at the end of the summer with a double A-side single on the Moshi Moshi digital/vinyl singles club – ind.pn/bDpkms.pn/bDpkms

I first picked up a D20 at the relatively late age of 21.

A third witness at first picked out a man in the courtroom audience as resembling a man she said she saw threaten Mr. Robinson just before the shooting.

She first picked up a basketball at age three, and by six she could dribble a ball between her legs.

Dar's face, when he first picked up the trophy at a ceremony in 2009, beamed from ear to ear.

She at first picked a different man out of a police photo array but then selected Mr. Drake in a lineup.

The minicab driver's son first picked up a racquet at the age of eight.