Sentence examples for picked lightly from inspiring English sources

The final yield was 450 pounds of freshly picked, lightly steamed, very local frozen carrots for winter meals like veggie stir-fry, peas-n-carrots and candied carrots.

Onstage, the songs needed only his acoustic guitar, lightly picked or firmly strummed, and his unforced voice.

There were long, gradual fade-outs that selectively revealed a lightly picked acoustic guitar, a sustained cello line or brushes on the drums; there were crescendos of feedback courting chaos.

The power transfer distribution factors and weighting factors are used to determine the order of restoration paths, which can enable the load to be picked up by lightly loaded lines or to relieve stress on heavily loaded lines.

Three to five colonies were lightly picked from fresh overnight culture plate to suspend in 150 μl AE buffer.

Oddly, contrast sensitivity — as measured by a test of the eye's ability to pick out very lightly shaded images on white backgrounds — was among the most predictive of the 377 factors evaluated, as was the number of rapid step-ups on a low platform that the subjects could complete in 10 seconds.

If you only lightly pick the string, you will probably reduce or eliminate the buzz.

She picked me up on a lightly travelled forty-five-mile-an-hour road.

I leaned over and very quickly bit it lightly, and then picked up my SkyMall catalogue and began reading.

Seasoned and steamed, breaded and lightly fried, or picked clean for crab cakes, few crustaceans are more delicious.

The acoustic guitar is still there, now lightly strummed and picked in the sensitive-guy style of John Mayer, though it's usually just a preamble to a big crescendo and more reassuring bromides: "We don't need nothing, as long as we got love," he sings in a duet with Natasha Bedingfield.