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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.
Around 400 B.C., the Greek painter Zeuxis was said to have painted grapes so lifelike that birds came to peck at them.
Peck says bad feelings still linger among allies of the old program who feel left out.
First it cheaped out on maintenance, letting birds peck away the roof's foam covering.
Inside, pigeons peck at rice grains left as offerings to an image of guru Gorakhnath that is encrusted with carmine powder.