Sentence examples for pick bits of from inspiring English sources

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They get rowdy in gym class, dip Oreos in their chocolate-milk cartons at lunch, pick bits of food out of their braces and shout things like, "Hey, your epidermis is showing!" There is little they like to do quietly.

Krylova's daughters, five and 11, zoom in and out of the sitting room, leaning over the sofa to whisper to their mother, desperate to pick bits of icing off the enormous and unusual cake she has had made for her husband's birthday – decorated with a large marzipan model of her, instantly recognisable with flowing blonde hair and cheekbones, perched on the edge of the cake, next to a winged angel.

(Indeed, the stylized opening sequence features him carefully shooting a cat with an arrow, the better to eat it without having to pick bits of lead from the carcass).

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She picked bits of caramelized sugar and almonds from a glass dish.

As Ankiel spoke next to his locker stall, he picked bits of shaving cream out of his hair.

We were relieved to find most of the clothes unscathed, though we were picking bits of scorched nylon out of our shirts for days.

There, he sifts through archive footage from film and radio broadcasts, picking bits of dialogue to set to music that slips between krautrock, synth-pop and cinematic post-rock reminiscent of British Sea Power.

But when one excellent and rumpled singer came up to shout a few lines — a short woman in jeans and a dark peacoat — Ms. Caesar first fell on her, then positioned herself behind her, and respectfully, intimately, as if with a daughter or a niece, picked bits of lint off her back.

While we talked, Changoleón occasionally occupied himself with picking bits of lint off the bed.

Just yesterday you were watching corny clips on YouTube and picking bits of Papa John's finest from your bedsheets.

If you can't picture her chowing down on a bag of potato chips, licking her greasy fingers and picking bits of chip out of her perfectly styled hair, neither can we.

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