Example sentences for: pegged

How can you use “pegged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An essay pegged to the Lewinsky scandal mourns the end of loyalty.

  • In the current exhibit of Picasso's early work on display in the National Gallery in Washington (which is pegged to Richardson's first volume), the walls wreak havoc with art history: Picasso consuming Symbolism; Picasso eating Impressionism; Picasso devouring Fauvism.

  • A piece pegged to the Ken Starr investigation deplores the law's increasing indifference to privacy.

  • News and Time gushed about "Clintonism," the Standard offers its own definition (pegged to the State of the Union): "Clintonism transforms your most parochial worries into matters of state," dealing with picayune issues rather than genuine ones.

  • (Both stories are pegged to Arlie Hochschild's new book, The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work , which argues that home and work have changed places: Home is now stressful; work is now relaxing.


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