Sentence examples for to be picked over from inspiring English sources

A.: In the past, rice had to be picked over for stones and washed to rid it of impurities picked up during processing or storage.

NPD staffers have also persuaded 20,000 households to record their monthly expenditures in paperbound ledgers and mail the diaries back, to be picked over for trends.

Cangrande, whose remains are to be picked over with financial support from Verona's city council, expired puzzlingly at just 38.Italy is not the only place where graves are being raided to satisfy the curiosity of the living.

Brawling with Cena at ringside he never made it into the ring for the bell to sound though so all ended in confusion and carnage (no doubt to be picked over on Monday Night Raw).

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukWHEN the scandal of Marie Antoinette's diamond necklace broke in 1785, the testimonies of those implicated spooled out into the public eye to be picked over like so much carrion on a battlefield.

But who has the hours to sit parked at a desk, smithing words, when there's ten pounds of berries in buckets on the porch, waiting to be picked over and dried on sheets in the sun?

Nobody wants to be picking over rubbish as soon as they arrive at their holiday hotel.

And the decision to return to Las Vegas will be picked over long after the memorial services for Wheldon are over on Sunday.

Don't be picking over the bones.

It was a surprise to some when New Zealand was picked over Japan as host for the 2011 World Cup, a decision made in 2005.

Like Prometheus, whose ravaged liver was daily reconstituted so it could be daily re-ravaged, Hughes has had to watch his young self being picked over by biographers, scholars, critics, article writers, and newspaper journalists.