Sentence examples for pica from inspiring English sources

As they say in Catalan, de mica en mica s'omple la pica i de gota en gota s'omple la bóta: little by little you fill the sink, drop by drop you fill the barrel.

Eating disorders, Abnormal eating patterns, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia, compulsive overeating, and pica (appetite for nonfood substances).

You invite them all to sit down, order more beer and some bad pica pollo.

When I was pregnant, my unsavory addiction felt something like pica, the disorder that causes people to eat dirt and fingernails.

Adding to the plausibility of this idea is that pica is also more common among pregnant women, whose fetuses are more vulnerable to toxins than adults, and more common in the tropics, where pathogenic viruses and bacteria are more prevalent than in colder climes.

— Eric Asimov The Washington Post: Hospitalizations have nearly doubled in the last 10 years for pica, the mysterious compulsion to eat dirt, ashes, chalk, soap and other inedible substances.

Hanging around the back of a book where there's nothing to look at but a succession of Wank pages--that's pathetic... Maybe the insights of a ten-cents-a-word hack underwhelm you, but it has to be asked: who cares what typeface this book was set in except for a handful of ink-stained, pica-crazed designers with floppy metal rulers?

Worse, he's now taken to referring to himself as "Pica-Pau", possibly because he's refusing to leave the past glories of Férias Frustradas do Pica-Pau, his 1995 Brazil-only Sega Megadrive game.

But the former governor of Maryland and potential 2016 Democratic candidate for the White House was defeated by a far less well-known opponent than Barack Obama – he lost a bid for the Maryland state Senate in 1990 to an incumbent named John Pica.

A former comptroller of the appeal court, Marcial Garcia Pica, who is currently charged with obstructing justice in Chile's first big narcotics case, has described with pride how he used his position to influence fellow judges in favour of (poor) defendants.

Pica a hunger for nonnutritive substances may be a symptom of the need for more roughage in the diet or of feline leukemia or other health problems.