Example sentences for: peacock

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

  • Once on the cutting edge, today its more experimental repertoire is presented on its second stage, the intimate Peacock.

  • A ferry links Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island), a delightfully tranquil nature reserve in the Havel, towards the northern edge of Berliner Forst.

  • The Wu-Tang Clan has entered the "stagnant hip-hop scene like a slap in the face, parading its strikingly original gutter funk like a ghetto peacock" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the group's eclectic influences--including funk, flamenco, and psychedelic--and its lyrics, "as dense, obsessed, prolific and full of popular and arcane references as a Pynchon novel" (Neil Strauss, the New York Times ). (Clips are available here.)

  • He lavished millions on palaces and mosques, blowing at least one million pounds sterling on gold and jewels for his Peacock Throne.

  • Zitzewitz Spotswood L. Berten Bean Monica L. Spruance Munro Peacock Monica M.C.G.


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