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Example sentences for: peck

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When the year 2000 arrives, he concluded, "the most beautiful and happiest old people, pill or no pill, will be those like Peck, proud, aware, and strong in their imperfect human reality."
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."
It was a dry, short peck and it felt weird."
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.
And peck they would have.