How to Use pick apart in a Sentence

pick apart

phrasal verb
Definition of pick apartnext
  • The Irish opened with an opponent primed to be picked apart.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Theron’s face is not the only one the internet picks apart.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The Rams are missing a ton of pieces and their secondary is getting picked apart.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Its world is dark and cryptic, both a place to explore and a puzzle to pick apart.
    — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 14 June 2023
  • For the first time in a decade, maybe more, Dortmund is not home to a side that is waiting to be picked apart by the game’s apex predators.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • The whale’s eye was still intact, even though the eyes are usually one of the first body parts to get picked apart by scavengers.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The Jayhawks struggled to keep Gonzaga from its spots on offense and the ball-screen defense was picked apart.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2024
  • When it’s picked apart in the court of public opinion and dismissed by an untold number of people?
    — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • There are, as always, superlatives galore to be picked apart from the results.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2024
  • But Embiid sank his third 3 on the other end and James (nine assists) picked apart Brazil’s defense.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Otherwise, there's not much to pick apart in a prospect with Pro Bowl potential as either a tackle or guard.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But, in the weeks since, many of his decisions have been picked apart by subordinates for any signs of influence by Moore.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • During the trial, Trump's defense team sought to pick apart Carroll's account of what happened, and what followed.
    — Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 10 May 2023
  • Clement asked, recalling the Russian trucks and tanks on the road to Kyiv last year that had been methodically picked apart by Ukrainian forces.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 July 2023
  • When codes can be picked apart and analyzed by outsiders, the mystery disappears.
    — Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Asher, on the other hand, has to endure hearing these strangers pick apart every aspect of himself.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Phillips, more than once, has bemoaned the lawsuits and their contribution to the narrative that the ACC is inferior and ripe to be picked apart.
    — Andrew Carter, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2024
  • After all, in that movie, a 12-man research station in Antarctica is picked apart by a shapeshifting being.
    — William Earl, Variety, 15 Jan. 2024
  • But with the hits came harsh scrutiny: Tabloids picked apart everything from her thin frame to her on-off romance with Jack Nicholson, 87, a man 33 years her senior.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 2 July 2024
  • Texas’ pitching was picked apart by one of baseball’s least-potent offenses.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Kay, meanwhile, is being picked apart for her appearance.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • The comedian apology is a much mocked form, one that tends to get picked apart and invite much criticism.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 2 June 2024
  • Your performance and your roster will be picked apart ad nauseam.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
  • When William and Kate had the audacity to visit a farm store, in Windsor, and the misfortune to be filmed in the act, the visual testimony was swiftly picked apart.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Trump's defense team continued to try to pick apart Carroll's account of what happened in Bergdorf Goodman and what followed.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • We’re left with the modern African body standard that is rooted in cultural pride on the surface but when picked apart has more negative origins.
    — Annie Blay, Allure, 22 Feb. 2024
  • My character being picked apart by people who don't know me and disrespecting my name.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The junior forward accounted for nearly one-third of his team’s total baskets by himself while picking apart San Jose State’s defense in the paint.
    — John Coon, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Every winter, like Punxsutawney nobles, biotech’s many thought leaders gather in San Francisco to pick apart the year that was and prognosticate about the one to come.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 20 Dec. 2023
  • House Of The Dragon’s premise is centered around picking apart the unfairness of a heteropatriarchal society.
    — Chloe Johnson, refinery29.com, 22 July 2024

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