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Example sentences for: peck

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Although human biochemists can depress activity more than 10 5-fold in Fhit [ 35, 36] and Hint [ 30] with a single active-site His mutation, hens apparently continued to peck at the sequence of Hint, altering all four of the absolutely conserved His residues.
Inside, pigeons peck at rice grains left as offerings to an image of guru Gorakhnath that is encrusted with carmine powder.
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."
If they are near the sea they want to eat lobsters by the peck.