Sentence examples for rather picky from inspiring English sources
Corals are, however, also rather picky: if they get uncomfortably warm, they expel the algae living within them.
They were, truth to tell, rather picky: "Our requirement is a suitable Hindu Nadar girl of Sivakasi /Madurai side origin, preferably employed as a software engineer in Chennai, age between 21 to 24, height 5 feet 2 inches to 5 feet 6 inches (157cms to 167cms) and sufficiently good-looking".
First off, standards between the US and EU need to be harmonised, which will involve some rather picky changes – one example Larry Elliott gave was deciding where fire extinguishers will be placed on newly manufactured speedboats – and some big ones, such as redefining labour standards, environmental protections and standards of goods and services in the EU and across the Atlantic.
It's also, like so many old pubs, a bit of a magnet for ghosts, with the glassed-over well that serves as a bar table now the regular haunting ground for Florrie, a rather picky spirit who flings pepper pots (but only at bearded patrons, for some reason).
Given the list of "wants" and "don't wants," it seems to me that I'm rather picky.
There's also utility to getting others to join you for an event you'll be attending, but this turns out to be a weak incentive for broadcasting since most people prefer to be rather picky about who they solicit to join them for real-life encounters.
Iowa and New Hampshire are what they are, for a few generations now the preserve of picky and rather pampered caucus-goers and primary voters who expect extra-special catering and are keen to project their sometimes particularistic concerns onto American presidential politics as a whole.
Rather than being seen as picky, be sure to let others know you are making an effort to be discriminating.
If you are going to be picky they would probably rather donate it to charity.
Now picky borrowers audition eager lenders rather than the other way around.
Mog had a rather unsettled relationship with food: she was a picky eater, a protester who frequently went on hunger strike, upsetting the Thomases.
