"Poking around in worked-out chambers with a pick!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference

He hadn't bothered to ask what 'worked-out keys' were.    From Wordnik.com.  [between silk and cyanide]

We had a whole family dynamic worked-out for when we played house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polka Dot Cottage: Saturation] Reference

A cleverly worked-out but true comparison has just come into my head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories] Reference

I thought the “twist” was well worked-out in the numerous details.    From Wordnik.com.  [DEAD WEIGHT • by Matt Cowens] Reference

Communitarianism is far from being a fully worked-out social philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amitai Etzioni: Conservatism is Dead: Long Live Liberalism? (Part III)] Reference

"My songs, they're kind of too well worked-out for me to add on anything.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Love, Belle and Sebastian-style] Reference

That was why they had approached him for the sale of worked-out claims and tailings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XIII] Reference

Hope they will order a worked-out version, although the sketch has charm of it's own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maison d'Ailleur's Opening Fête] Reference

Strong currents can run deep and I don't think we can see all that is being worked-out.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The ANC has a carefully worked-out, affordable plan to look at the special concerns of women.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH BY LYNNE BROWN - ANC MAYORAL CANDIDATE FOR THE CAPE TOWN UNICITY AT COSATU'S WOMEN'S EVENT] Reference

The greatly increased security of these 'worked-out' keys would allow the messages to be shorter.    From Wordnik.com.  [between silk and cyanide]

Hilbert also realized that axiomatic investigations required a well worked-out logical formalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilbert's Program] Reference

It turned out that the time and legal costs were very high, although it all worked-out in the end.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Sperm cells created from female embryo."] Reference

In some states and cities thoroughly worked-out laws were enacted against the tuberculosis menace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Koch - Nobel Lecture] Reference

ROMER: I just say it's not right, that it is -- it's going to be -- it's a carefully worked-out program.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2009] Reference

Or she might have become merely a worked-out, worn-down pioneer woman, her beauty gone and her spirit tamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove]

The last scattered huts and weatherboards fell behind, the worked-out holes grew fewer, wooded rises appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

Maybe a worked-out example of the EF – preferably from biology, something like the flagellum would be great.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historic Tidbit] Reference

The top soil should be returned ultimately, on top of discarded material into the worked-out part of the quarry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

China is working like a dervish and has worked-out agreements with Australia and lots of other local nations….    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Rubber Stamp Republican Congress Video Goes Live] Reference

I worked-out every day inside my studio apartment and my home became cluttered with diet books and exercise charts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heather Kristin: Skinny in the City] Reference

The NYT reports on yesterday's meeting at the White House, where the supposedly worked-out bailout plan broke down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does McCain now wish he'd taken the Obama-style low-profile approach to the bailout?] Reference

Thus it can be seen that heart catheterization must in no way be looked upon as an almost worked-out field of research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Werner Forssmann - Nobel Lecture] Reference

The first worked-out proposal for a heterostructure transistor was published in 1957 by Herbert Kroemer, then working at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information for the Public - The 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics] Reference

Argun Rivers, but details on demarcation have not yet been worked-out; boundary delimitation agreements signed in 2002 with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

First reports indicated that the mud poured into the top levels of the mine from an adjacent worked-out open pit operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Life, the Universe, and Everything had given Douglas the problem of trying to force jokes onto a carefully worked-out plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Panic]

She was a thin, washed-out, worked-out woman, whose life of dreary and unending toil had stamped itself harshly upon her face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Banks of the Sacramento] Reference

First reports indicated that the mud poured into the top levels of the Rovic mine from an adjacent worked-out open pit operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Peter Mc are a worked-out seam of iconography, until you see this delightful painting of a befinched Darwin by artist Diana Sudyka.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference

Destroying his worked-out keys as soon as he had used them must become as reflex to an agent as pulling the ripcord of his parachute.    From Wordnik.com.  [between silk and cyanide]

For that action, instead of progressing according to their carefully worked-out plan, was ended almost in the instant of its beginning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Lens]

The principal worked-out example that comes close to this ideal is still the axiomatic account of quantum mechanics, as described in Ludwig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Structuralism in Physics] Reference

Harold Koh, or Pam Karlan-who would bring a deeply worked-out constitutional vision to the court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference