Sentences with phrase «pecking away»

Map out your career plan in manageable bites so you will not become overwhelmed, and then start pecking away at that plan slowly but surely.

Perhaps your current job is too far away from where you live and commuting costs are pecking away at your salary, perhaps your salary is on the low side for your job description or maybe you want to work your way up the ladder faster.

The elves at the Law Commission of Ontario have been furiously pecking away at their keyboards to produce our next crop of consultation papers.

One of the prospective jurors is constantly pecking away on his phone.

As soon as you start up and the game gets your save file ready, an adorable pigeon starts pecking away at a pile of edamame:

Although I have been looking to move back to the old school journaling as it just feels better to sit in a cafe or a park writing in a journal rather than pecking away on the phone.

We just have to keep pecking away at their consciousness until one little thing hits home.

Writing for other websites was much more profitable (in the near - term, anyway) than pecking away on the keyboard for Financial Uproar (the website which is like a tightly coiled sex robot in a jar).

Pecking away at a keyboard all day can leave you feeling disconnected from your work, and the final product may suffer as a result.

So, she keeps pecking away at it, hoping one day it will be perfect.

In the morning I'd take my notes down to my «Man Cave» and start pecking away.

Instead, you need to keep pecking away at an arrow on the touchscreen — good luck if you're aiming to scroll from Hits 1 on channel 2 to Road Trip Radio on channel 301 (yes, you can punch - in station numbers directly, but that's no help unless you know the channel numbers by heart).

Even Bobby is shown pecking away at his keyboard or remodeling the motel multiple times.

I am grateful for another day to keep pecking away at always present list.

It's a recipe for rounded shoulders: We sit all day with our heads down, pecking away at keyboards and swiping smartphones.

But I also sensed that this fellow, a competent and able manager, wouldn't have been happy sitting in a corner somewhere pecking away at his keyboard.

De Blasio is pecking away at his predecessor's legacy, this time clipping the wings of «Birdie,» a symbolic bird created by the Bloomberg administration to promote sustainability.

She did however convince him to do so and the chickens are still happily pecking away.

Babbler denoted the image of a bird pecking away at a scrap of bread.

peick Well there you are pecking away at your keyboard that science had a great deal to do with its creation; faith is the belief in something without evidence.

On one small island, a whole flock of them was gathered around something, pecking away at it.

So much of what I do is on the other side of a computer, just me pecking away here at my sticky laptop in the middle of my pink 90s kitchen while Evelynn naps and the older tinies are at school.

Yet we're spending more and more of our time pecking away at keyboards.

Your old standby bar graphs and pie charts are just the tip of the iceberg — it's not uncommon now to see executives and professionals of all stripes working on visuals instead of hunkering down at the keyboard for a long session of pecking away in Word.

To him, this was a small price to pay for escaping the monotony of pecking away at a keyboard in a lifeless cubicle for eight hours a day, five days a week.

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

With laserlike precision, he pecks away at the outside corner with such regularity that he gets more pitches farther off the plate called strikes than anyone else.

In a masterly performance, Johnny Unitas pecked away at the Dolphins with quick little passes and runs as Baltimore defeated Miami to take over first in the American Conference's Eastern Division

The Yankees, meanwhile, pecked away at the Reds» starter, graying lefthander Fred Norman.

The scores gave Oregon a 15 - 0 lead, and while Kansas State would peck away at the lead for the rest of the first half, the burst gave the Ducks some time to find their way offensively.

Do you peck away at multiple units at once, or focus on taking them out one at a time?

He's the standard analogue man in an increasingly digital world; his books long out - of - print, Leonard doesn't take freelance gigs writing advertising copy because he deems it an objectionable compromise; he instead pecks away at a novel he's been working on for more than a decade, and enjoys simple get - togethers with his adult daughter Ariel (Lili Taylor, fantastic).

By Anne R. Allen When you start a writing project, whether you're diving into the intensity of NaNoWriMo, or just carving out a few hours to peck away at the keyboard on weekends, it helps to get emotional support from friends and family.

we ask and two kids hop into action — «come on» — and lead us a few yards down the road to a nondescript alleyway where a chicken slowly pecks away at his tin of food and a woman hangs up laundry to dry.

(Visiting relatives in Denver — cold and snowy outside, so it has been a great time for this Southern California boy to stay inside and peck away at his laptop keyboard.)

Here's what happened the first time I sat down with the Surface and pecked away on the Touch Cover:

Saw six crows keeping a grey wolf at bay whilst they pecked away at road kill, wouldn't let it have a scrap.

I don't want to peck away at my screen while listening to the other person to give me their info.

Not exact matches

so, every one trillion years a little tiny sparrow comes along and takes two pecks on that sun - sized steel ball, then flies away and comes back in another trillion years and «peck - peck».

Go away, stay away, and (wow) this blog is just like so many others with the circling and pecking mentality of anyone and everyone who disagrees, which is why it's the same old commentors all the time.

A crow pecked the other before both doves escaped and flew away.

After I caught them in the act, they ran away, pecking each other playfully as if to congratulate themselves on their dirty deeds.

Ruben Loftus - Cheek is currently ahead of Chalobah in the pecking order, which has left him with little choice but to seek first - team action — once more — away from west London.

The Blues are keen not to let a top class player go easily this summer, despite increasing probability that their long - serving shot - stopper will seek a move away from Stamford Bridge after falling behind in the pecking order this season.

Bale, who scored seven and assisted three in 19 La Liga games for Los Blancos last season, is reportedly unhappy at the club, as per the Sunday Express, after dropping down in boss Zidane's pecking order, with the player set to find himself even further away from the first - team should the Spanish giants end - up being successful in their pursuit of Monaco forward Kylian Mbappe.

Very much like the game against Swansea in which he was shown up at Right Back, it seems that Chambers has once again fallen down the pecking order and is now apparently set for a loan move away.

The recent signing of Arda Turan from Atletico Madrid could have now knocked him further down the pecking order, perhaps making a move away from the Nou Camp more enticing.

That sweet potato and [inaudible]-- we had those the other night and he had peck those things away.

When you pull away at the end of the kiss, give your date a peck on the cheek, it will leave them wanting more.

The infotainment is simple as we mentioned, and many of the common - sense controls are separated out for you to use by touch, rather than look away from the road and peck and hunt through menus to find.