Sentence examples for pick at hand from inspiring English sources

After 15 months of fighting her off, as she veered wildly from bully to victim, as she brandished any ice pick at hand, whether racial, sexual, mathematical or marital (in the form of her Vesuvian husband), Obama must decide the most efficacious means of doing to Hillary what she has been trying to do to him: putting her in her place.

"So every house had an ice pick," he added, "and you know the way it is, somewhere in the city, tempers fray and the ice pick is close at hand when people are losing it".

He had taken a razor and picked at his hands until they were shaggy with scraps of skin.

That means that for many results you are looking at hand picked sites that are known to have high quality content.

After a bit of prodding, Ms. Rhea tried to focus on the task at hand, finally picking up the strand of lapis that Ms. Cain had used in her demonstration.

Instead, hold her head gently but firmly with one hand and with your other hand, gently pick at the tangle with the brush.

BITS OF INSPIRATION Whatever I have at hand, whatever I pick up: cards, tickets, photographs, things I cut out of magazines, things people give me, business cards, invitations.

If I was clearly cornered, with no possible retreat, I would bend and pick up whatever item was close at hand, perhaps a can of green beans, and appear to be engrossed in its label.

With this broadly general model class at hand, one can pick an appropriate model when analyzing a specific biological cell population system.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin May 11, 2009 In the Justice Department torture memos, waterboarding was described as a procedure in which "the water is usually applied from a canteen cup or small watering can with a spout" — evoking a camping trip gone wrong, or a spy looking around his orchid-filled solarium and picking up whatever happened to be at hand.

Interestingly, Nokia is only paying the tip, with Microsoft picking up 70percentt of the costs at hand.