Sentence examples for picked over her from inspiring English sources
Her mixed-race heritage was picked over (her mother is Jewish, her father Nigerian); ditto her parents' separation when she was five.
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.
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.
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.
This is life in the contemporary political arena, where who a candidate is as a person — the choices she makes every day — is as picked over as her positions, in part because those are choices we all share.
In Dyersburg, Charlotte Sweat, 49, picked over the ruins of her home, which had been pushed off its foundation into a ravine.
Her decisions are questioned and picked over.
First her relationship with Jude Law, long since amicably ended, was picked over.
"Thought things were pretty well picked over.
For months, the customers had picked over the ugly shirts.
Now, post-Christmas, the stock looked pretty well picked over.
