How To Use pick over In A Sentence
- I would rather pay for a meal than watch nine friends pick over and split a bill.
- I hefted my pick over my shoulder and brought it down hard on the stony wall.
- Pick over the fruit and pile on top of the cream.
- Pick over the thyme leaves, season with salt and pepper and drizzle with a good glug of olive oil. Times, Sunday Times
- I would rather pay for a meal than watch nine friends pick over and split a bill.
- I passed bespoke tailors and furriers with 'liquidacion' painted across the windows, bored shop assistants watching children pick over the garbage outside.
- People come to pick over the beach wrack for the coiled, weather-revealed shells.
- A hooded crow, large and muscular beside the smaller waders, stabs its way through the pile, not once bothering to look up, while a single redshank steps daintily across the weed's surface in search of a likely area to pick over. Country diary: Benbecula
- Pick over and hull the straw berries.
- Pick over the fruit and pile on top of the cream.