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Sentence Examples The daws may peck upon one's sleeve without injury, but whoever wears his heart upon his tympanum gets it not far from the neck. It wasn't even a kiss to her, maybe just a peck on the cheek, but that was all. Sometimes chickens will pick out the weakest one in the flock and peck it to death. Michael bent down, kissed Alice on the cheek, turned to Alex and gave her a peck on the cheek. Often, as they peck and probe in the depths, they allow birders to approach closely enough to see their identifying features. After the boy gets booted out of the house, I reassure Dad it was a totally innocent peck and that there was no monkey business going on. She whispered something to him, gave him a quick peck on the cheek then strode past me without a sideward glance. The most memorable death-bed smacker since Hardy stuck one on Nelson was Sergeant Lewis's peck on the forehead of Morse in the morgue. As soon as he recognised her he gave her a peck on the cheek and stopped for a natter. He found two dozen eggs that morning and one hen that was broody and wouldn't let him near her nest without threatening to peck him. We meet at this friend's loft and he gives me a rather brotherly peck on the cheek when we meet. There was an early spin-the-bottle game, but I'm not sure that peck counted. Boil different sorts of vegetables together, including half a peck of pens, and a cabbage blanched, cut in quarters, and tied with packthread. I laughed and gave him a peck on the lips again before we heard someone clearing their throat to gain our attention. He's a prissy fellow, and he takes about 10 or 15 seconds just to peck a hole that is large enough to pull one of the kernels through. I take a deep breath and lean forward, standing on my tiptoes to peck him lightly on the mouth. This allowed them to input small amounts of text data quickly without having to peck at a tiny keyboard with their fingers. Ace, not liking his perch to have been taken, came down and gave a sharp peck on Jerome's hand. Patience finally paid off as one hopped slowly, slowly towards me and I felt the peck of a tiny beak in my hand. The mother bird started to peck at me, but I dodged all the pecks and hit her beak with my mace. Show More Sentences What had started out as an innocent peck suddenly turned into something more. James dropped a quick peck onto his mother's cheek and slid onto a bar stool where bacon and eggs awaited him. She greeted Alex with a quick peck on both cheeks, then immediately turned her gaze to Evan. Lola dotes on him hand and foot, trying to rekindle his emotions, but earns only a perfunctory peck on the cheek at best. She wanted to kiss him, even a gentle peck on the cheek, but she didn't think that it would be appropriate. He was changing a light bulb and she gave him a peck on the cheek, and he was in shock. Cordially, he gave Megan a peck on the cheek and Kayla a quick kiss across the lips. Proceeding in January to the border of a frozen truck-farm, a peck of seeds with husks and other fragments was quickly gathered. We all have to eat a peck of dirt, the saying goes, but some of us enjoy it more than others. I have a distinct distrust of any man who smells of soap and believe we all have to eat a peck of dirt before we die, but there are limits. Sitting by our persimmon tree last fall I watched a robin stretch out to peck off a piece of the bright, ripe fruit. He gave her a peck on the lips before diving in the refrigerator and grabbing a cooler. Because they are crammed so tightly, the birds go crazy and peck at each other. He walked me back towards my hotel when I was due to meet Roger and he gave me a quick peck on the cheek to say goodbye. The green spot may have been there to guide the young to peck at the parent's beak and make the parents disgorge food. After a week of acclimation to the cages, birds were induced to peck the response keys by a standard autoshaping procedure. It wasn't bloody, where they had managed to peck through the skin, but the tissue had the foamy texture of worm-rotten wood. She rose, proffered a courteous and gentle abrazo, a quick peck on each of my cheeks, and merged into the evening. It doesn't help that the most recent guy was already a slow typist, and just agonizingly slow with the left handed hunt-and peck. She gave him a slight peck on the cheek, her ruby red lips leaving the smallest of imprints. Show More Sentences Audrey debated the issue for a minute, then bent down and gave Todd a peck on the cheek. Without even a peck, Julio turns away down the thick stone steps and runs. She stepped towards him and gave him a quick peck on the lips. After giving linney a relatively harmless peck on the cheek, Busey went wild, grabbing Garner and kissing her neck. She shifted her glance, and watched a crow peck at a dead sewer rat. When little Shona Ritchie plucked up the courage to ask for a peck from Prince William, the future king was happy to oblige. As I sat there, wistfully watching the kids run round me, I scattered some cheesy puffs and cashew nuts for pigeons which descended cooing and flapping to peck among the grit. Subdued chickens peck around the dirt for any trace of discarded food. He tells Harding that the session reminded him of a pecking party, where a group of hens, seeing a spot of blood on one of their number, will peck that hen to death. The intimacy of the contrasting figures in the painting represented to peck the love he had for his longtime wife, Veronique peck. Digital birds that peck you to pieces, a disabled graffiti master who works by brainwaves. Rather than peck away and publish, Kathy would go away and think. For a good few minutes the poor pigeon struggled with his measly prize, nibbling at it in earnest, each peck accidentally flinging it over his head and way behind him. Like birds alighting for a while on a newly seeded lawn, they will peck away at all the possibilities until they have exhausted this area and then move on to another form. Arrow flipped under her and gave her a quick peck underneath her beak. Sometimes they'll peck at a particularly luscious flower or leaf, too, but there's enough there and to spare so I don't grudge them their dietary needs. With a myriad of chain stores, unique boutiques and trendy clothes stores, you will have no problem securing a festive peck under the mistletoe this year. He gave her a light peck on the cheek and then returned to his own room. Obviously comfortable with the relationship, capybaras are unfazed when cowbirds alight on their heads and begin to peck around their eyes and ears. My morning walk is usually a trip to the henhouse with a bucket of kitchen scraps which I fling, pausing for a few moments to admire the flock as they peck away. Show More Sentences A thousand attics and flea markets must have been raided to yield the album's menagerie of castaway ukuleles, autoharps, Marxophones, Aqualins and peck horns. Jason shared an intimate embrace and a self-conscious peck with Antoine. She didn't know if she was expecting a hug, a peck on the cheek or a kiss. Newly hatched honeyguides peck their nestling competition to death with heavy, hooked bills. Rather than hunt and peck for the right training, many in leadership roles are avoiding it altogether because of the sense of potential waste. They always try to peck at my wedding ring when I reach inside the brooder. Brooders will also cluck and peck at anyone who tries to remove them from the nest. Gulls have been observed preying on live whales, landing on the whale as it surfaces to peck out pieces of flesh. Bred for weight, many of them can no longer walk and they're debeaked with a hot knife in case they peck one another to death. A gull will sometimes stand on the pelican's head, peck it to distraction, and grab a fish from the open bill. Crows have been observed to puncture the skin with their beak and then peck out the animal's liver, thus avoiding the toxin. She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten. Such a man must have reticences in him. If he walk wearing his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at, his journey will not extend far! Ground-feeding birds, song thrushes and dunnocks will have found it difficult to feed with no grass to peck and all the worms drowned by the rainwater. All the bird wanted was a peck of that crumbliest, milkiest chocolate. Under the guidelines being looked at, the star-crossed lovers may have to seal their romance with a brief peck on the cheek rather than a full-on lip-lock. Her sleeping husband, Ron, gets a peck on the cheek that he probably won't remember, and then she's off to do grunt work at a local Denny's restaurant. The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn. The rooster had been known to fly on her shoulder and peck her neck, so that now she carried a stick or took one of the children with her when she went to feed the fowls. The Corps also purchased a motor launch and put her to work for the Fort Peck District. Show More Sentences Peck is randy and rambunctious, especially in the crazy scene where his horse keeps butting him from behind. We arrived at Fort Peck and learned that our Indian visitors were a war party of Crows going to fight the Sioux. Peck bears down and learns to ride the bucking broncos and out-cowboy the tough cowboys before finally settling with Heston. Mrs. Peck saw him about to rush into their house and managed to waylay him for a moment. If you have given up trying to resemble a stick insect, pay a visit to Peck, the ultimate Italian deli. Everything looked promising with his first US movie, the imperishable Cape Fear, with Gregory Peck and an animalistic Robert Mitchum. Peck used locally quarried andesite, a brittle stone that fractures into sharp, angular shapes and has a sparkly surface. Gregory Peck was a gentleman and Horton Foote, the great Texas playwright, was always on the set. Two Kinds of Time by Graham Peck In contrast to spence, Graham Peck is almost unknown. But not until Gregory Peck is humiliated and walks out do we cut high and long to show his exit. Peck looked peaked to Williams. He was pale and appeared to be breathing in shallow gasps. Dale and Kim Daniels acquired the house from the Peck Children's Trust, led by Clifton Peck IV and Patricia Paintier. The facility has been designed by Berry Architects of Eugene, in association with Peck, Smiley, Ettin of Portland. The favourite for the 1968 race, Different Class, was owned by actor Gregory Peck. What he saw was not Peck Wilson but some soft scared pukeface whose mind couldn't stop running up against the bared teeth of the moment. While Peck happily celebrated his extra day, two Montrealers who had learned about his plans conceived an idea for a second promotional stunt. The state of Alabama has had a poet laureate position since 1930, and was initially created for Samuel Minturn Peck. Russell National Wildlife Refuge around Fort Peck Reservoir, which is home to sharptails and sage grouse. In 1956 the village was visited by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and other famous visitors have included Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman and Paul McCartney. A common reference for the glamorous image of scooters is Roman Holiday, a 1953 romantic comedy in which Gregory Peck carries Audrey Hepburn around Rome on a Vespa. Examples from Classical Literature I have found about Chillicothe a number of the varieties given by Dr. peck. Ay, and you shall have a half peck of pinon nuts for your supper, I promise you. If I had said a peck of groats he could not have appeared more indifferent. He had a warm heart, although he did not wear it on his sleeve for daws to peck at. Then a great swamp called for description, and before we were through with it, I had about a peck of boiled sweet potatos. From Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh we learn that the price in 1701 was half-a-crown a peck. The result was a sharp peck on the end of his nose that made him cower down and ki-yi. He that eats a boll o' meal in bannocks eats a peck o' dirt. Laurie screwed up his face and obeyed with a gingerly peck at each little cheek that produced another laugh, and made the babies squeal. Would you winnow a whole peck of chaff for only three good grains? He did but peck, as a bird pecks with his bill, and yet a man dropped dead. And as for the acorns, senor, I'll send her ladyship a peck and such big ones that one might come to see them as a show and a wonder. Repeat this till you have put in eight quarts or one peck of tomatas. Better so than to have the Promethean vulture peck it out for you. When she was asleep, he said, he would hop on to the frilly things of her night-gown and peck at her mouth. You must not wear your heart upon your sleeve, or daws will peck at it. And we must contrive to get a peck of russet apples, late in the season as it is. It mistook me for a honeysuckle, and gave me a peck to make sure. Ex-private William E. Peck sat down on a fire hydrant and cursed with rage. Coulter had warned Peck against giving Merriwell an outcurve. Show More Sentences Kirk Douglas ROMAN HOLIDAY GREGORY Peck and Audrey Hepburn share the screen in William Wyler's celebrated 1953 romantic comedy. Nadir is currently serving a 10-year sentence in Belmarsh Prison in southeast London for fraud and the theft of more than 30 million pounds from his former Polly Peck empire. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of peck? Words that rhyme with peck What is the past tense of peck? What is the plural of peck? What is the adverb for peck? What is the noun for peck? Translations for peck Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Pechora pech peccavi peccary peccaries peccant Peck pecked pecker peckerhead peckerwood Peckham 4-letter Words Starting With p pe pec