Sentence examples for pick over her from inspiring English sources

Like the vultures who turned up at the auction to pick over her remaining possessions, Dumas picked over the bones of her life and turned them into a meal ticket.

Her mixed-race heritage was picked over (her mother is Jewish, her father Nigerian); ditto her parents' separation when she was five.

The second time they threatened to shoot her, she was suffering severe sleep deprivation and had a vivid vision of vultures picking over her corpse.

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.

Pick over sorrel, discarding discolored pieces.

Pick over the spinach removing any stalks.

Hungry Athenians pick over street garbage for food.

" 'Pick over there — fun! Pick over there — fun!' But when he came with us there is no fun.

Unfortunately, we now have another mystery to pick over.

And there was no shortage of carrion to pick over.

The Senate begins to pick over the stimulus.