Example sentences for: peck

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

  • First it cheaped out on maintenance, letting birds peck away the roof's foam covering.

  • In his piece, The Day They Took the Peck out of Pecksniffian [XXIII, 4], Doug Briggs observed, There is a movement to decriminalize the meanings of words that once described criminal conduct in unmistakable terms.

  • We had a good program," Peck said.

  • 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.

  • 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."


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