picked-over

Another talked about how he walked two blocks to a picked-over grocery store, carrying a large rock for defense.

Egypt protests cause panic among U.S. students in Cairo Jenna Johnson 2011

Another talked about how he walked two blocks to a picked-over grocery store, carrying a large rock for defense.

Egypt protests cause panic among U.S. students in Cairo Jenna Johnson 2011

I'd been struggling quite a bit with the World War II story: It's such a picked-over period and I was looking for a backwater of the war that wouldn't perhaps feel so familiar to readers.

A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book 2010

Another talked about how he walked two blocks to a picked-over grocery store, carrying a large rock for defense.

Egypt protests cause panic among U.S. students in Cairo Jenna Johnson 2011

The employees, who are completely bored 364 days, were freaking out, and there was basically nothing left except the picked-over carcasses of the shittiest costumes.

Assholes Finish First Tucker Max 2010

Luca crossed his knife and fork and dropped the utensils onto his picked-over plate, branding the caprese with a gigantic X.

Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010

The outbuildings had filled, over generations, with the kinds of bits and pieces that a line of frugal farmers judged prudent to save: picked-over engines, scabbed chunks of metal, quarter sheets of plywood gone crumbly with rot.

The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

The trees, which had been full of brilliantly hued leaves only weeks before were now picked-over bones, skeletons of their former glory.

KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

She kept her face impassive as she drifted closer, the basin of picked-over gooseberries on her hip.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

Royce was seated alone at an oval table in back, before a half dozen picked-over platters of food, his face lit by his BlackBerry.

DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010