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Sentence Examples Numbly peering at her drawn face, he drew back her sleeve without looking to feel for a pulse. Looking up, my eyes met two warm brown eyes peering at me through a pair of glasses with thin oval frames. I looked in the mirror and saw this crumpled old face peering back at me, dishevelled, none too clean, and in desperate need of a shave. It is broad daylight, and the Professor is peering through rain-soaked windows at towering black canyons so tall they blot out the sky. She goes upstairs to the final room, peering in, gazing upon a closet that is taped shut. The three of us went out to the landing, in turn peering through the tiny window into the lift. I took the opportunity of peering at his shed while hanging out the washing in the unaccustomed sunshine. That person was peering up at her from the first bench and her tiny mouth was set in a hard straight line. The design he'd initially blueprinted seemed much smaller than the one standing before him, peering down at him from thirty stories high. She had blue eyes and was looking at me in fear, peering through the hole in the ski mask at my brown eyes. He started peering around all the parts of the machine and even got down on his knees like he was an engineer of some sort. He sat there, flamboyantly peering through a pair of binoculars, to poke a bit more borax at his old foe. Not wanting to be seen, she ducked behind a bottle tree, peering suspiciously into the car. People have to see that something has been done instead of peering too much in the unswept BSP yard. Is it some kind of perceived void in ourselves that causes us to seek validation by peering into the lives of those we idolize? And nosy neighbors peering over the backyard fence can be a thing of the past. By now some of the more nosey neighbors were peering out of their doors with curiosity. A tired-looking face with bloodshot eyes was peering over the side of the railing, looking at her. It's not every day that I wake up to the calls of hadada ibis, or to the sight of a giraffe peering at me through the trees. Editors around the country are likely peering at their calendars, noting the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and cringing. Show More Sentences Stereotypes of vegetarians have us all clutching a nut roast whilst peering through our wire rimmed glasses and wearing hemp. A man, peering down out me and clearly amused, asked me over the jubilant caroling my name and what I did. My stomach tightened, and I thought of leaving him outside, but he'd already seen me peering at him through the window. There was this figure peering out of the front left window as the door opened. She was peering at me intently, as if she hadn't insulted the size of my rooms, the cleanliness of them, and my cheapness in paying my servants. The man behind the lead is tall and lean with ice-blue eyes, often peering out below a cheese-cutter hat. It's a chillingly honest picture of a man confronting his mortality, with turquoise eyes peering out of a ghostly white mask. As the story unfolds, we see the vicious weather conditions the mountain climbers faced, while also peering into their inner realities. In the freestanding mirror, Kenji could make out the monkey's close-set eyes peering unblinkingly at its own small, reddened face. The little girl was standing on the seat and peering over the top, playing peek-a-boo and pulling silly faces at the two friends. Who wants peepers and peerers standing outside bedrooms, peeping and peering? He frowned before making his way over and peering out the peephole in the door. He held the ball on the palm of his hands, studying it closely, peering at it the way a gemologist stares at a diamond. I frown and hunch over the wheel, peering forward, concentrating furiously and determined not to make another mistake. Sadie spat with contempt, whilst peering down at the half-filled bowl of dry cereal. She was still there, where she'd stopped, peering around, squinting to see in the near darkness. Wool-capped passengers shiver on deck, peering through the fog toward a sea as gray and hard as slate. He rubbed warmth into his arms, peering through the fog to see if he could spot the stranger. It is a site fit for a king, this hillside peering over the roofs of Berkeley toward an expanse of shimmering bay. Public peering is a means for internet service providers to send and receive traffic destined for one another's networks. Show More Sentences Finally, VoIP peering will only be beneficial if the carrier can bill for the transpired calls. In voice peering, as in simple peering, the overall aim is to achieve some consistency in traffic management end to end. Whether networks interconnect via peering or transit is based on the respective size of their networks. Even the staunchest advocates of end to end VoIP are quick to admit that voice peering is not the norm today. Nicola peered into the underbrush and made out a family of weasels peering right back at her, their coal-black eyes gleaming. A round embedded itself in the nose cone, inches from where he was peering through his sights. We saw people running by outside our window, peering fearfully back over their shoulders. She looked at him closely, peering intently at his face as if trying to read it. Greta folded her arms across her chest, peering from the scope to the radio console. On their knees they shuffled around the tank, peering into the corners among the big pebbles, at the gravel and the pondweed. Quite a few of the birds seemed to be peering down a crab hole, making me wonder if the heads had been dragged down by the crustaceans. This particular species has very long claws and is commonly found peering out of silty crevices in Scottish waters. The second face was withered and ancient, with watery eyes peering out from above a crooked hooked nose. His cross hairs targeted a nervous soldier peering out from his cover of boulders. He saw us all peering out from the Club and waved gaily to us, like royalty. They dashed through the gates as the guard ducked back into the gatehouse for shelter, peering through the grayness. It was quite comical watching these gruff geezers peering under the van trying to coax the kitten out, making cooing noises at it, etc. I pop to the Gents in the warehouse and tidy my ponytail, peering dejectedly at my sallow face in the soap-crusted, cracked glass. A head was peering out at him from around the end of one of the rows, long shiny hair, a glitter of eyes reflecting the light on the table. My new 8 x 10 glossies came in the mail, and my father was peering at them over my shoulder. Show More Sentences Matt stared at Sam, as goggle-eyed as a goldfish peering out of its bowl at an approaching cat. On one occasion, a man peering into one of the dirty windows claimed to see the dim figure of a woman, suspended by her wrists from the ceiling. While peering at the ground glass focusing screen I suddenly heard this loud cracking noise. Don't you find it disconcerting when you have someone literally five centimetres from your face, peering into your eyes with a torch? Every time I came home from work and walk up the steps to the building, he'd be in the kitchen either doing the dishes or peering out the window. I caught my first glimpses of wild rock wallaroos peering at us shyly from the safety of a rocky ledge. Her smokebox door hangs open, with headlight peering sideways through the fog with a wall-eyed Cyclopean stare. Often he would lie for hours, his elbows in the peaty soil, peering through a jungle of grass blades in search of those elusive musicians. Dove through the sliding doors and whammed them shut, crouching on all fours, heart beating wildly, peering out at him. A long, wide car has pulled up in the driveway, a face peering whitely from its passenger window. He didn't say anything, and he was peering at me inscrutably through the darkness when I looked at him again, his eyes aglow in the porch light. The photo had been altered so that between the doctors peering down at the operation is a wigged and gowned barrister. That explains the absence of carols, tinsel and holly if you come listening through our keyhole and peering through our window this year. Looking at this photograph is like peering through a keyhole into a secret world shared only by this mother and child. Sadly the front door was locked so my view was limited to peering through the keyhole. Had it been a usual morning, people would have been walking about and peering in various shop display windows along the block. Probably, he thought, peering out through struggling wind screen wipers at rows of brake lights ahead. With Miles down for the count, I expected some peering into how a coach completely reshapes his game plan, but that was absent here. She wrung her own tiny hands, peering up and down the street for any more sign of the shiny officers. I was woken, however, by the light of a candle being held aloft above my face, and the sight of Gerald peering down at me anxiously. Show More Sentences The window was blocked completely by a curtain of lianas, and Theo swore he could see a small monkey peering out at him. She cleared her throat and leaned forward slightly peering at the name tag attached to his bright orange monitor vest. More than 30 elaborate scarecrows are peering from hedgerows, fields and chimney pots, as part of the annual scarecrow competition. Even the tots wore their costumes and enjoyed the fun, peering through their grotesque masks, and frightening their elders. You are thinking about things that go bump in the night and monsters under your bed and vampires peering at you through your window. My friend and I were the only women and we davened in the freezing courtyard, peering inside the chamber to see some men rocking back and forth in prayer. Whether the telescope is operating as an optical or an infrared instrument, rarely will there be an astronomer peering through an eyepiece at the Keck's images. But peering more closely at the photograph, taken this August, his weary brown eyes reveal a darker truth. Tours take busloads of curious tourists round the winding side streets, peering at security gates behind which celebrities hide from their adoring public. After traipsing around the byroads in Knockleigha, peering over a few fences and clambering into a few ditches, the safari was beginning to look like a non-event. It was one of the strongest natural defensive positions in military history, with the monastery, like some great all-seeing eye, peering down on everything. We'll be peering over the barricades at the beautiful people who are swilling Martinis right on the spot where we used to put up our pup tents and park our caravans. She answered the knock, peering through a crack in the door. She looked up at the wolf peering down at her, and flailed her arms wildly, the tears streaming down her face and the wails screaming from her open mouth. Our lights barely reached the top of this dramatically sculpted abyss, and we sat in awe for a good ten minutes just peering up into its lofty heights. She regarded him carefully, peering at him from under her hooded cloak. Claria flattened herself against the wall, peering around a corner. The insignia depicted the head of an Indian scout wearing a helmet peering through a cloud, signifying the squadron's role as an aerial scout for the Army. He squinted, peering at it and trying to make out the figures. At the film counter of the general store a shrunken old man holds himself steady against the glass display cabinet, peering down at the selection of instant cameras. Show More Sentences He ignored the pale, angry faces peering out at the cow-house window. Cate stared silently ahead, peering into the grove of trees. Beyond, I think, any journalist I have known, McKinnon seems to be happiest in archives and libraries, peering into microfiches and at computer screens. He stood behind them, eyes peering out under the black cowl. We were not the only large mammals in this forest, and would sometimes catch a glimpse of a doe-eyed, bewhiskered face peering at us through the kelp. Along with all this, a new bird's-eye view shows, for the first time, what the Milky Way would look like to an astronomer peering our way from some faraway galaxy. Where else would you find a midget on stilts peering into the shadowy corners of a storage locker with night vision equipment? He turned the chair around and straddled it at the side of the bed, leaning his chin on the back, peering at me like he'd just uncovered a new species of primate. So, too, can citizens, peering down into the legislative chamber below. This tall building that was to be our billet greeted us in grey silence, its many windows peering down at us with the sightlessness of a blind man. His penetrating hazel eyes were also peering at her, studying her as well. She clasped her arms around her legs, peering up at the man. They also take their turn kneeling to pray amid the flowers in front of the coffin, peering at the waxily reposed figures with a mixture of curiosity and bewilderment. Again, what does it say about the human heart if you get your jollies, so to speak, by peering into somebody's interaction on a supposed desert island? Tourists, inspired by the Picturesque movement, started coming in the 18th century, peering at sublime mountain scenery through their Claude glasses. Selina squinted her eyes before peering upward into the sun. She reached for the phone, peering nearsightedly at the alarm clock. He was standing in front of her now, peering at her nearsightedly over the rims of his glasses, his strange eyes glowing in the light from the fire. And there was Mr. Brown, peering nearsightedly in the window. But the worse implication is that some of the highest offices in government are peering nearsightedly at short-term corporate interests to steer their foreign policy. Show More Sentences Suddenly he stopped and squinted, peering into the distance. She was a stout, lively woman, a week from 70, peering at me sharply through butterfly glasses. It is a product of an impatient society that prefers to crick its neck peering at an online news bulletin than wait until the morning for a paper. It saves us from peering into the darkest recesses of our own hearts. When I get the hills to line up, the lakebed is in the wrong place,'' Moore said, peering through the transparency. Which is why she can gallivant in a 1940s balmacaan and not feel that the previous owner is peering, Topper-like, over her shoulder. I had been easing along the edge of the rimrock, peering over it, trying to catch sight of velvet antler tips. Discovered with Jack, Rose tells a concerned Cal that she was peering over the edge and Jack saved her from falling. Coming from a writer peering with wonder and defiance into the crepuscule of life, it's a delight that readers should savor. Akiva stood at the edge of a rooftop terrace in Riyadh, peering down at a doorway in the lane below. Linda chuckled, peering at me over her reading glasses in that schoolmarmish way that turns on the schoolboy in me every time. The stranger kept hanging about just inside the inn door, peering round the corner like a cat waiting for a mouse. Speeding up the Internet is an ongoing discussion over the use of peering and QoS technologies. And there's Peeper Geoffie hiding in the bushes, peering through windows, rubbing his snausage against his little yellow raincoat. Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait. Then I saw these two wee eyes peering short-sightedly at me from behind a plank leaning against the wall. How wonderful to be able to see the former banking hall's amazing decor without peering through the nicotine equivalent of a peasouper. At the hospital, the sickening pictures of the patient's ear canal revealed a stocky, hairy, four-eyed arachnid peering out at the camera. Even in these conditions they stay outside, like hardy weeds, peering jumpily down the road, hoping for a sale. We stood on the fire step with our heads over the top, peering out into No Man's Land. Show More Sentences A TWO-FOOT telephoto lens peering out of a hedge, as mums drop their kids off for the day. VoIP Operators that subscribe to XConnect's peering services can now leverage the Proxy7 Signaling Gateway to bridge between the PSTN and VoIP traffic. Their supernatural identities are emphasized by the skulls and bones lying at their feet as well as the devil discreetly peering at them from their left. He feebly wanted to get out of this, away from clucking nurses and Dr. Crittenham's owlish peering and the horrible scrambled eggs and cold toast. But for a certainty, the 6 foot 4 inch Lincoln, in frock coat and top hat, stood peering through field glasses from behind a parapet at the onrushing rebels. Look, there's old whatshername peering over the fence again. When we see him lying atop a table, peering down at the figure crouched underneath, it could be situation comedy or something altogether more sinister. We bobbed in the ocean currents in a 24-foot rubber raft, peering into sea caves, scanning deserted beaches, craning our necks to take in the summits. She began a circuit of the dining room, peering at the baronial fireplace with its andirons the size of torture racks, and heavy oak carvers like gnarled thrones. Examples from Classical Literature Mr. Van Wyk, peering alongside, heard a muzzy boastful voice apparently jeering at a person called Prendergast. Some brooding spirit of the past might have been peering out at them from the watchman's wicket in the bartizan above. Old Mrs. Cayce followed him with curious eyes, peering out in the gaps of the hop-vines. The Chinaman, having heard his name spoken, was peering inquiringly from the tail of the chuck wagon. He started off circumspectly and noiselessly, listening and peering at every step. The mite was peering through the crack and calling to cully at the horse-trough. Both of them, peering through the scrim curtains, saw a tall white figure disappear into the spring-house. The dopy cook scuffled to his feet and stumbled over to the rail, hung there, peering intently southward. Is there a single spot which the eye, by any peering or prying, can fathom or exhaust? Like a flash the others followed him, and stood at attention just in his rear, gawking and peering in our direction. The old man was peering at him sharply from under the grey protruding brows. The Serang had been peering forward, and now and then glancing at the chair. She crossed to the window, peering through the blurred dripping panes for a last sight of his skidding car. In another five minutes he was peering like a woodchuck from his hole in the snowbank. Her face is wrinkled, and her dim eyes are peering down the track which leads from the steading to the pasture. I wished him to go on, but he was peering into my straining eyes with anxious sympathy. Well, today physicists peering into the infinitely small realms of subatomic particles find reaffirmations of religious faith. For a moment the two stood, side by side, behind the trunk of the live oak, peering out over the sunbaked plain. Hunched over the throttles, peering tensely ahead, he was tautly estimating speed and direction. When the second dawn came, the Bunch were all tautly and wearily alert again, peering ahead, across dun desert. Show More Sentences The stoop was gone from his shoulders, and the peering, peaked look from his eyes. But peering from the 87 window, he saw that the resurrectionist was a dog, which already had its teeth in the cloak. For a few seconds he stood bending over the balustrade and peering down into the black seething well of darkness. The muggletonian rowed slowly, peering about him with small, keen eyes. For a moment that had to Letty the air of an aeon, Godfrey stood peering. The wounded Navaho was peering down from a hole in the ceiling. He scribbled the appointment on his shirt-cuff and hurried off in his strange, peering, absent-minded fashion. Out at the window a florid moon was peering over dark roofs, and in the distance the waters of a river glimmered pallidly. One crawled through tight-locked briers and branches, and found oneself on the very edge, peering out and down through a green screen. Mr. Winship asked at last, peering out at the carriage window. I was peering through the slit in the postern, not twenty feet away. Instantly the venturer was up and at the flap, peering outside. When the dawn came he was peering out with hungry eyes, getting glimpses of meadows and woods and rivers. I walked to the left along the slope, turning my head about and peering this way and that among the straight stems of the trees. Only the boy, peering through the knothole, was tense and vibrant. He cadaverously glides across the stage, an awkward circus-freak, his expressionless face peering out curiously at his disciples. He was standing on the ladder with his back to us, peering over the combing of the hatchway. Slade had been peering sideways at the rigidly posed Carmena. And in this face that resembled the face of a fat and fiendishly knowing baby there glittered a pair of clever, peering, unbelieving black eyes. By the time I got back to the window, Linda had the binoculars uncased and was peering out into the light of a full moon. Show More Sentences It is only the serious eye peering from and the sincere life passed within it which restrain laughter and consecrate the costume of any people. Two waifs adrift in a storm, peering into a bakery window at the cookies. They were charming up there, huddled together in the cart and peering down at me like curious deer when they come out of the thicket to drink. Every way he looked, he seemed to be peering into a blind alley. The doctor, peering after him with strange, sad eyes, shook a boding head. Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land? Are you afraid lest peering from this high Pisgab, between Philistine and Amalekite, we might sight the promised Land? The miller's wee cassie stood there, peering at him out of the darkness. Even when I ask, guilelessly peering at her forehead, whether 70-year-old Angela has tried Botox. He could see him dimly by the window, which he had unscrewed and opened, peering down. He had been peering inside the parka hood and suddenly he turned to me. As she drove away she saw Mr. Cobb peering at her through the window. Exclamations from the crowd, craning necks, peering eyes, murmurs. Goode was peering at the ivory inlay on the underbelly of the stock. There's somebody's eyes peering at me over the deanery blinds. They are all peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with his back turned to the rest, who seems wholly preoccupied with a notebook in which he is writing busily. On those long rides, Flood remembers peering through the glass into the dining car with its fine linen and china, but not being allowed in due to her race. Here he stood for some time, muffled up in his robe, peering over the shoulders of the players, watching the changes of their countenances and the fluctuations of the game. A man in a yellow sou'wester hat was peering through her window, one hand pressed white against the wet glass and his wide face blurred by rain droplets. It will not do for him to be peering into it, and putting his face in it. Show More Sentences Her eyes dwelt affectionately on Green Gables, peering through its network of trees and reflecting the sunlight back from its windows in several little coruscations of glory. Four unshaved Welshmen in otball shirts and a young woman martly turned out in her best office othes peering through the window Albania's version of Dixons. Find more words! 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