Sentence examples for well picked over from inspiring English sources

The B-list has been pretty well picked over too.

Unfortunately, the nation's supply of moral watchdogs is pretty well picked over right now, what with the demand for appointees to the Bush administration.

His French has improved, his backstory is now pretty well picked over, and a third linguistic childhood -- in Slovakia, say -- is presumably out of the question.

The high-inflation mistakes of the 1970s have been pretty well picked over by economists - economic journals and textbooks are littered with little "lest we forget" reminders of those mistakes - so the Treasury and Bank of England probably can be trusted not to make the same mistake again.

But that's mitigated by output from Canada, Egypt and onshore U.S. In the North Sea, where the conventional wisdom is that it's been well picked over, Apache bought the legendary Forties Field from BP in 2003, nearly doubled production and recently added 24 new exploration blocks there.

"Thought things were pretty well picked over.

Indicators are being continually parsed and picked over, like the prices of lumber and palladium, as well as an alphabet soup of indexes, interest rates, spreads and swaps.

Fruit become bland if picked over-mature.

Investors are looking beyond some of the more popular sustainable investment sectors like solar and wind that are already well developed, picked over and therefore tend to offer more compressed returns.

If the city isn't careful a similar flight is going to occur with the younger generation of entrepreneurs– just like Blue Bottle left Dolores Park, Trader Joe's left the Castro, and Larry Ellison could very well pick Spain over San Francisco.

Using tongs or gloves, pick over the nettles, discarding any stalks, and wash well.