The vultures had picked over him some, but he was huge and muscular, still warm.
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.
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.
Valerie's agonizing over having picked silk ("cutting silk is hard, finishing silk is really hard").
The company launched its public beta in October 2011, and since then has picked up over 15,000 unique users.
