PECK in a Sentence

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For PECK, below is one of 45 sentences:
Laurie screwed up his face and obeyed with a gingerly peck at each little cheek that produced another laugh, and made the babies squeal.

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 Meanings and Examples of PECK
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peck
 v.  pick; hit lightly with a picking motion; eat like a bird
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  Don't peck at one another, children.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
2  "You ought to have sent word, or told me this morning, and you ought to have remembered how busy I was," continued Meg petulantly, for even turtledoves will peck when ruffled.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
3  Laurie screwed up his face and obeyed with a gingerly peck at each little cheek that produced another laugh, and made the babies squeal.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
4  On the other hand, if she permitted one chaste peck, he might bring her other lovely presents in the hope of getting another kiss.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  You sound like a peck of dried leaves rubbing together.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
6  Why," said Joe, "yes, there certainly were a peck of orange-peel.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVII
7  He had known, to use his words, a peck of trouble.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
8  Scarlett smiled uncertainly and pecked obediently at the withered cheek presented to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
9  Melanie flew at Ashley like a small determined dove and pecked him for the first time in her life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  I'm a hawk; a tiny leashed hawk, pecked to death by these large, white, flabby, wormy hens.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  Parallel meridians rudely pecked into the glass, surround these footpads' goblets.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
12  So much was Mary kicked and cut to pieces, that she was oftener called "pecked" than by her name.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  Only one hen pecked at her hand with a fierce little jab, so Connie was frightened.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  But the mother-hen pecked at her hand fiercely, and Connie drew back startled and frightened.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  The old hen pecked at him, but not so savagely.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  "They're in an awful peck of trouble, and -- " "WHO is?" "Why, pap and mam and sis and Miss Hooker; and if you'd take your ferryboat and go up there -- " "Up where? Where are they?" "On the wreck."
2  The birds peck insects from the log.
3  When Peter Piper picked a peck of Polly Potter's pickles, did Pete commit a major crime or just a peccadillo?.
4  When Mother told Billy to kiss Great-Aunt Hattie, the boy obediently gave the old woman a dutiful peck on her cheek.
5  That bird tried to peck the baby.
6  Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him.
7  A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
8  Hens pecked around in the yard.
9  A bird had pecked a hole in the sack.
10  She pecked her father lightly on the cheek.
11  The hen pecked a hole in the sack.
12  Vultures had pecked out the dead goat's eyes.
13  It was winter and the sparrows were pecking at whatever they could find.
14  There's a clearly established pecking order in this office.
15  A robin was pecking at crumbs on the ground.