PEEP in a Sentence

Learn PEEP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

143 example sentences for PEEP, such as:

1. The moon peeped out from behind the clouds.
2. I noticed him take a little peep at his watch.
3. And Meg took a refreshing peep at her glove box.
4. The birds peeped exactly as we refilled the feeder.
5. I peeped through the window to see if she was there.

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 Meanings and Examples of PEEP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
peep
 v.  make high-pitched sounds
 v.  cause to appear
Classic Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
1  Jo saw a big red headed youth approaching her corner, and fearing he meant to engage her, she slipped into a curtained recess, intending to peep and enjoy herself in peace.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THREE
2  And Meg took a refreshing peep at her glove box.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINE
3  squalled Polly, bending down from his perch on the back of her chair to peep into Jo's face, with such a comical air of impertinent inquiry that it was impossible to help laughing.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
4  There is a glass door between it and the nursery, and I mean to peep at him, and then I'll tell you how he looks.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
5  Poor man, I pitied him, and when the girls were gone, took just one more peep to see if he survived it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
6  From behind one pillar I could peep round quietly at the full front of the mansion.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  The journey would moreover give her a peep at Jane; and, in short, as the time drew near, she would have been very sorry for any delay.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
8  While they exchanged caresses I took a peep in to see after Linton.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  Disappointment queerly stirring her, she opened her eyes a trifle and ventured a peep at him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  He drew the new hammerless shotgun out of its heavy tan leather case and made her peep through the barrels to see how dazzlingly free they were from rust.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  Though he was merely ambling about with his hands in his pockets, though he did not peep at her, she knew that he was calling her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
13  Not more than one in ten had ever really tried it; the other nine had contented themselves with hearsay evidence and a peep through the door.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  While this scene was going on in the men's sleeping-room, the reader may be curious to take a peep at the corresponding apartment allotted to the women.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  It is not much to the purpose whether a gate in that garden wall which I had scrambled up to peep over on the last occasion was, on that last occasion, open or shut.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
Example Sentence:
1  I noticed him take a little peep at his watch.
2  The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.
3  I peeped through the window to see if she was there.
4  The moon peeped out from behind the clouds.
5  When her knock elicited no response , she opened the door and peeped in.
6  The birds peeped exactly as we refilled the feeder.
7  She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom.
8  Once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it.
9  though muffed in a cloak--an unnecessary encumbrance, by-the-bye, on so warm a June evening -- I knew her instantly by her little foot, seen peeping from the skirt of her dress, as she skipped from the carriage-step.