Sentence examples for had picked over from inspiring English sources

The vultures had picked over him some, but he was huge and muscular, still warm.

For months, the customers had picked over the ugly shirts.

Back at the farmhouse, the aroma of a hearty lunch wafted through the wooden hallways, along with the smell of lavender that Mrs. Unterberger had picked over the summer.

The following evening, after a day in which the media had picked over the government's humiliation in the Lords, the BBC's Newsnight programme invited the work and pensions minister Chris Grayling on air to debate the defeated proposals (which the coalition government intends to restore when the bill returns to the Commons).

Geologists have picked over most of the rest of the globe in search of minerals, yet huge swathes of Africa remain largely unprobed.

It's partly this, partly everything else – the way they've picked over her life like meat on a bone, used her saddest moments as hooks for gossip columns – that led to her speaking out against them.

That is a real sore spot, because TMP's rivals worry that they will see résumés for the best candidates on Monster only after TMP has picked over them.

Almost 12 years of talks, resulting in 880 pages of policy commitments, have picked over many bones of contention, including Vietnam's textile export subsidies, which it has promised to eliminate, and its banking system, which it has pledged to open up by next April.

I'm sure that individuals have picked over this debris and junk here and there, but there has been no organized or consistent effort.

Photograph: Javier Soriano/AFP/Getty Images 10.45pm BST ITV are covering this match: Having picked over the bones of Spain's exit from the tournament, they're now previewing England's match against Uruguay tomorrow night.

Officials from all sides said diplomacy had picked up over the past 24 hours.