Critics from some animal rights groups are already pecking away at the contest.

He would keep pecking away until he could work in the questions somewhere.

He had never considered himself a weak man, but doubt was beginning to peck away at the edges of his psyche.

Why should they give up commerce and peck away at the earth with pickaxes?

The moral of all this is to keep pecking away at your personal computer.

By the late 1960's, however, American technology was pecking away at uniformity.

Those guys chased leads for months and kept pecking away until the pieces came together.

"You go to meetings and it's hard to get those guys to focus because they're all pecking away," he said.

In a forest, he hears Woody pecking away at a tree.

Woody's still alive and pecking away, this time at the professor.