Sentence examples for picking around from inspiring English sources

No grasses for picking around in, too much competition from remote-control sloops and tugboats.

Built on tolling chords, the music transforms into a slow minor ballad, Mr. Sheppard gracefully picking around the chords and abstracting his lines into soft, wailing long tones.

Some cows picked around the piles of refuse, while children ran up to the trucks.

The N.B.A. personnel said they expected the Utah Jazz, which should pick around No. 12, to feel pressure to draft Fredette.

They were the cheese and the cheese was them, plus they were too small to really pick around.

They'd been picked around the time of my last visit in August and sealed in storage ever since.

Mr. Osby picked around the famous melody subversively, running parallel to Ms. Pitts, taking wide harmonic routes around the horn without going dissonant.

That is the theory of his catcher, Jorge Posada, who had grown tired of watching Contreras pick around the strike zone instead of challenging hitters with his overwhelming stuff.

Catalde would slip broccoli, peas or spinach into his pasta, and when McDavid picked around them, Catalde would tease, "I'm calling Gary Roberts!" Even so, McDavid still took his plate, rinsed it and put it in the dishwasher.

Japanese shares crept slightly higher as investors picked around for bargains after a rebound on Wall Street.

Colonies resembling human ESCs appeared around day 20-25; they were picked around day 30 and expanded for further characterization.