picked over

Of those 53, 16 signed in the spring window, when the pool of players is more picked over and programs are more desperate — and willing to pay.

Few fallouts have spilled out into the open in recent years – and those that did were picked over simply because they're so rare.

Cooks and servants of the garrison picked over the goods, demanding better prices while soldiers wandered in and out of the main gate with bored expressions, rarely stopping to look at the merchandise.

After a brief stretch on the Pacific Crest Trail, you’ll find a section lined with huckleberries — however, being so close to the PCT, they may be picked over.

On the ship and back at Harvard, the team picked over the debris with tweezers and found, amid volcanic ash, nearly 700 “spherules,” tiny metallic pellets 1 millimeter or less across.