Example sentences for: peck

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

  • Trent Lott buried the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform bill in parliamentary procedure, the Washington establishment of political parties, candidates, advocacy groups, and campaign-finance lawyers were already figuring out how to peck the law to death if it passed.

  • Perhaps you can hear Gregory Peck's voice saying it now.

  • Though Wilson was unmarried, dating another woman so soon after his wife's death seemed vaguely scandalous in 1915, especially because, as Starling discreetly put it, Wilson was afraid "another woman--a Mrs. Peck, whom the President had known years before--would make trouble if an engagement were announced."

  • "But at Sinatra's funeral, the eternal Gregory Peck amazed us with his beauty and his bearing."

  • Around 400 B.C., the Greek painter Zeuxis was said to have painted grapes so lifelike that birds came to peck at them.


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