pick at

Example Sentences

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The two spend the years picking at each other while secretly growing fond of the other’s company, though never able to act on their feelings due to the difference in their social status.

From Salon

Of course, Boritt had devoted much of that life, as a historian, to picking at one of the gnarliest scabs in American history.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, they’re frozen in their grown-up strangeness, Dad picking at his nails and Aunt Melissa tying her dish towel into knots.

From Literature

He picked at the patch on the back.

From Literature

I pick at the cap to my gel pen as the last few stragglers make it to their desks before the final class bell rings.

From Literature