Sentence examples for picked over there from inspiring English sources

Yes, the season is waning, but Ms. Peterson planned to bide her time, having observed that while some racks were picked over, there were plenty of bargains worth chasing.

PROD THE PRODUCE "The selection has to be adequate, and can't look picked over, and there can't be bugs," Mr. Dowdell said.

Or perhaps you could have done what I did and haul my sort-of-proactive ass down to the grocery store a few blocks away, where the display was picked over but there were still a few dancing animals in the aisle.

The Tudor cast of characters has been written about and picked over for centuries; was there anything new to write about them?

The fabulous bones of this oft-told tale have been picked over so often that there's no flesh left on them.

Richard Rodgers has been picked over so many times that there is hardly any element of discovery left for the series's hard-core subscribers, who often know as much about the subject as the expert host-narrators.

In the past two days, after the regime agreed to a cease-fire — one part of an ambitious peace plan proposed by Kofi Annan, the former U.N. Secretary General, that is still being picked over by Assad and the Russians — there have been more deaths, but less than the usual daily dozens.

And there's a perception that Gulf assets have been picked over already.

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

So no one should be surprised that Murphy didn't want to be there picking over the corpses of old comedy routines like Buckwheat and Mr. Rodgers, let alone honoring Saturday Night Live.

You're picking over -- I mean, there's this kind of barbaric quality to what we do.