Sentence examples for was picked through from inspiring English sources

What was left of her shop this morning was picked through by the birds.

However, MGM wanted a more popular artist, and invited various singers to write songs before one was picked through a competitive process.

She was picking through what was left of Tiffany's house.

Engine mounts, flywheels, crankshafts – some clearly the worse for wear – are picked through by aficionados who know it is good to have spares.

And since it can't be attacked on its real-world record, all that leaves is picking through the documents".

The prosecutor "is picking through and asserting these statements must be accurate, but there was an awful lot of confusion," Mr. Funk said in closing arguments.

Second (yawn) Life The Second Life blogger James Wagner Au is picking through some stats on whether corporate investment in the virtual world as a marketing tool is really worth it.

In Tuscaloosa and other cities, looters have been picking through the wreckage to steal what little the victims have left.

OUTSIDE, Kevin Jaeger was picking through the balsams.

At the time, Mr. Guernsey, a retired elevator mechanic, was picking through the rubble caused by the Sept. 9 pipeline explosion.

One afternoon in 1928, Harold Coolidge, a Harvard zoologist, was picking through a storage tray of ape bones in a museum near Brussels.