How To Use Pick at In A Sentence
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Instead, he believes Rugops was a scavenger, using its head to pick at carrion rather than fighting other animals for food.
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Well, I don't know what you call interruption, but this is a complete stopper; I can't make any impression with the pick, it is as hard as rock; and then comes some of those old walls that are rather harder than granite -- you may as well pick at a cart-load of pig iron.
Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3
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And, while the striker has no wish to pick at a livid scar, there is a record to set straight.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you get a hangnail, cut it cleanly with a cuticle scissor, but don't pick at it.
Protecting the health of your nails for a polished look
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However, when you start to nitpick at really silly things, then I cannot help but to wonder about motive.
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And, while the striker has no wish to pick at a livid scar, there is a record to set straight.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is easier to nitpick at our own shortcomings than to fret about faraway problems.
Times, Sunday Times
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Paige could only pick at her meal, forcing down a mouthful or two.
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Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the carcass of the deer.
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Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the carcass of the deer.
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Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the rotting carcass of the deer.
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I guess if you wanted to pick at him, you could say he still takes it upon himself to do too many things.
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He removed the lock pick and began to pick at the locks holding his restraints down.
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Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the rotting carcass of the deer.
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I tend to leave the windfalls for the birds to pick at.
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And then you all wait - and watch the clock - and watch the 4-top as they ever so slowly pick at the chocolate torte and sip coffee.
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But now they were tearing each other to pieces, and their vulture lawyers would pick at the carcass of their marriage.
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It is easier to nitpick at our own shortcomings than to fret about faraway problems.
Times, Sunday Times
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I tend to leave the windfalls for the birds to pick at.
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Children who bite their fingernails or pick at hangnails are more likely to get warts.
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Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the carcass of the deer.
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A healthy chicken and veg dinner but would pick at cheese and ham.
The Sun
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He threw a guitar pick at Connor who caught it after 2 attempts.
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Any chef will tell you that we lead the most unorthodox and unhealthy lifestyles - we pick at food all day and have no time to exercise.
Times, Sunday Times
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She reached into her pocket, and pulled out a thick black cord with a green guitar pick attached to it.
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Pollock, the veteran actor Ed Harris's directorial debut, is a mass-audience movie, not a peer-reviewed treatise, and so it's not fair to pick at historical inaccuracies or elisions.
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Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the rotting carcass of the deer.
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Today, Just My Imagination was the chosen tune and as the Temptations latest opus revolved on its never-ending loop, it echoed round our flat and wormed into my subconscious causing me to pick at my chips and barely register what mishaps were befalling Hoss and Little Joe on the Ponderosa ranch.
Family life
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But Ruben liked to pick and pick at her until she exploded so he could turn around and call her childish.
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The Republicans were very good at finding some little pieces to nit pick at, and be able to use those little pieces to go out, day-by - day, and really kind of dismantle the president and the White House's effort.
CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2009
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A healthy chicken and veg dinner but would pick at cheese and ham.
The Sun
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Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the carcass of the deer.
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He is considered a mid - to late-round pick at this point, but a strong postseason could lift him to as high as the third round.
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As he engages with the merciless classmates who rag him and pick at him every day, he imagines himself in computer graphics in the armour of the warrior.
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If not, she will pretend to look straight through him and pick at a plant leaf hoping he will go away.
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If not, she will pretend to look straight through him and pick at a plant leaf hoping he will go away.
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A didactic air creeps into the proceedings as the two men pick at the bones of friendship and trust, making an unexpected detour into the morality of modern marketing techniques.
