Example sentences for: peck

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

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

  • It was a dry, short peck and it felt weird."

  • 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."

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

  • Inside, pigeons peck at rice grains left as offerings to an image of guru Gorakhnath that is encrusted with carmine powder.


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