Sentence examples for we picked at from inspiring English sources
"It said, 'Hey there, let's hook up sometime and we can go out and do something,' "Jeffrey told me, as we picked at salads served in hollowed-out loaves of bread.
Here Kahane reinforces his genius for relating little romantic moments that welcome sentiment without taking on unwanted clichés ("At a seaside town we picked at our lunch/Talking of family, the books that we'd read/Back in the car, too nervous to touch/She emptied a bottle of water on my head").
For each real dataset, we picked at random one or two SNPs as QTL (the same for each replicate within each scenario but not across scenarios) and assigned an effect (the same for each replicate; the effect could be additive or dominant).
Upon finding little evidence for alternative splicing among several unigene clusters with multiple probesets that we picked at random, and with our primary goal being the identification of differentially expressed genes, we decided to focus on the other possible causes of probeset heterogeneity.
The more we pick at it, the more it smears.
Beneath a tree festooned with fairy lights, we pick at stilton-and-pineapple chunks on nails instead of cocktail sticks.
You know, has the moment passed, or should we pick at the scab again?" Next year, after all, he releases another solo record, a big rock-inspired album – although its energy has, he admits, been fuelled by Suede's reunion.
We've picked at its flaws and missteps; it's got plenty of ups and downs.
("In MY day we just picked at our cuticles. Kids today are spoiled rotten!" is how one wag on UrbanBaby, the parenting site, captured that impulse).
We've picked at his inconsistency and said that the only reason the Giants hadn't pulled the plug on him is because Peyton was his older brother.
