Words similar to pecking

Example sentences for: pecking

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

Reporters, pecking out their stories on deadline, didn't immediately respond with any.
A clue for COCK might thus come to read: number one in the pecking order dominates hens and crows (a quizzical statement, unless the word crows is read as a verb) or even: creature with a cow's head and a bullock's rump found in a coop (first letter of cow plus last three letters of bullock ).
Other terms that elicit laughter are lower on the pecking order because, although they may display quick thinking, they may lack the tight framework.
A scientific attitude also involves eschewing the glorification of the self-appointed and self-promoting academic pecking order of "Big Name" schools and authors.
"Important as they are, these issues are low on the academic pecking order, and not what get most faculty recognized," said Deborah L. Rhode, former president of the Association of American Law Schools and a professor of law at Stanford University, also outside the consortium. "