Sentence examples for picking away from inspiring English sources

"I began picking away at my own personality and that was dizzying," he said.

The algorithms are all looking for and picking up some kind of weakness in those particular bank stocks, picking away at them, picking away.

In his autobiography he compares it to being underground, picking away blindly at a seam.

Soon I'll clean the seed by picking away or sieving out any detritus.

I saw hideous two-dimensional birds picking away at potatoes' eyes.

Present-day scholars are picking away at the myths and fantasies that have encrusted the world's most famous composer.

Pick away according to taste.

"You pick away at a question," Byrne said.

He tried to pick away at the cinder-block wall.

Right from the start, Baran picks away at this idea.

More problematic was the defense's ability to pick away at her credibility.