Sentence examples for painstakingly pick from inspiring English sources

Later, we had the song book for the piano, and I'd painstakingly pick out the notes of "There is a castle on a cloud", and "I dreamed a dream"; the other songs were a bit too hard.

And when making a salad, set the cheese aside so that those who want it can sprinkle it on top at the end, but those who don't eat it don't have to painstakingly pick it out.

To gentle string accompaniment he painstakingly picked out the melodies, radiating contentment at the modest dignity of his offering.

In the grand tradition, it stands proudly Victorian, with fancy flourishes, quirky nooks and painstakingly picked 19th-century antiques.

The challenge failed and, within a year, the pigs were gone, most of them dispatched by a shot from a helicopter with the remainder painstakingly picked off by hunters on foot.

Removing a slab of stone which was on the ground the author saw that the child had painstakingly picked up all the chunks of concrete and stone that she could lift and had placed them in a neat pile outside the house.

Painstakingly picked out on a cardboard alphabet grid by its severely autistic author, the acclaimed Japanese memoir The Reason I Jump, which provides a "revelatory" window onto life as an autistic teenager, is being translated into English by the award-winning author of Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell.

After sieving the slurry, he painstakingly picked out tiny fossils under a microscope.

Palazzo painstakingly picked out centrosomes from large and easily manipulated surf clam eggs and detected nucleic acids in the concentrated extract.

Our daughter sat at the kitchen counter, painstakingly picking through the backyard dirt and removing rocks, sticks and assorted debris.

Their blankets are rolled in dirt and they are ordered painstakingly to pick them clean of burrs.