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She raised her hand to her wet head again, picked at a few limp filaments of blonde hair, trying to cover her exposed ear rims.

But over dinner at a trendy St. Louis restaurant, he picked at his chicken and said he was afraid to hope.

As she was ill , she had no appetite and only picked at the food .

They are better than they were, though, she decided as she picked at a broken blister.

"Too many good men died that day. " Tyrion's scar was itching fiercely. He picked at it with a fingernail.

At another table at Ebisu's dagashi bar, a lively group of men and women in their 20s, some wearing suits, picked at a selection of sweets.

After getting up, I picked at the sheet, fluffed up the pillow and made the bed.

The SerializerKey field was picked at random, as it was not being used elsewhere within this scenario.

I think something must be worrying Dade; he has only picked at his food for the last two days.

He wanted a drink badly. He picked at a dry piece of skin on his lip.

They just divided the land into plots and picked at them, subsistence farming.

The child just picked at her food.

Hedo lofted a pass toward the rim, where Lee was waiting after Kobe was back-picked at the foul line.

Were these grapes, picked at a fixed sugar concentration, "properly" ripe?

By definition , two people picked at random can't have correlations in the distribution of gray matter in the cortex .

At the plastic table on the patio, overlooking a tomato field, her father picked at bird crap.

The whites are picked at optimum maturity, then crushed and pressed gently.

Often he sat alone and just picked at his food. Or he read and jotted things down.

ginseng fruit picked at the fruit down when fried, ginseng and fruit can also be processed into canned food, fruit juice, jam and so on.

The grapes were picked at peak ripeness and the whole clusters were then lightly pressed.

A jar will be picked at random, and then a marble will be picked random marble have from the jar.

To boost my blog traffic, I held a contest, awarding $50 gift cards to readers I picked at random.

Delegates will be picked at a convention.

The average stock picked at random was up 3%, including dividends.

The sick woman just picked at the food he brought.

The second parent is picked at random from the parent population.

Her fingers picked at the bed covers.

A jar will be picked at random, and then a marble will be picked from the jar.

I'd always thought he picked at his food.

e. g. The sick man picked at the blanket.

There will be N^2 cells picked at any time, and N*2 left out (so in a cycle of a 10x10 puzzle there will be 120 cells total).

He'd been picked at so often by parents and teachers that he didn't know how to behave.

You belong among the wild flowers picked at the side of the road,