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eat like a bird
The anorexic girl just picks at her food -
pluck or pull at with the fingers
She picked nervously at the buttons of her blouse -
express a negative opinion of
She disparaged her student's efforts
How To Use pick at In A Sentence
- But Ruben liked to pick and pick at her until she exploded so he could turn around and call her childish.
- Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the carcass of the deer.
- A healthy chicken and veg dinner but would pick at cheese and ham. The Sun
- He threw a guitar pick at Connor who caught it after 2 attempts.
- 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
- She reached into her pocket, and pulled out a thick black cord with a green guitar pick attached to it.
- 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.
- Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the rotting carcass of the deer.
- 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
- Children who bite their fingernails or pick at hangnails are more likely to get warts.
