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Example sentences for "peek"

Lexicographically close words:
pedunculate; pedunculated; pedunculis; peece; peeces; peeked; peeking; peel; peeled; peelers
  1. As fo' the robe--hold yo' breath an' peek out through that crack along the aidge.

  2. Toady's never seen what one looks like, so we're taking him along to get a peek at it.

  3. Go up over them dunes and take a peek at him.

  4. Would you want I should land you so's you can take a peek at him?

  5. Not only Ferrero, but every bull-fighter in the place took a peek at Cogan.

  6. And yer quite a hulk in the water yourself, now yer've come out where we c'n get a peek at yer.

  7. And after we'd had time to get our breath, we took a peek into her hold.

  8. And the head clerk, who was also the head wit, took a peek at him coming, and very politely said, "Pray be seated?

  9. No, the big fellows were satisfied to have a peek at Tide Rip through a long glass; and so on 67 anything at all except a spell of bad weather stirred them deeply.

  10. When, however, Grace came to a drawer of photographs, letters and personal papers, she dumped them all into a card-board box and shoved them under the ragged quilt where the little horsehair trunk seemed to peek at her through the holes.

  11. Mary, just take a peek at this buffet runner.

  12. Amanda, take a peek at the favors, will you, and tell Sarah not to get them mixed.

  13. We can ride north 'till we walk behind ourselves an' never get a peek at them.

  14. Let's peek in that there hut," he suggested.

  15. For a second it really threw me because it reminded me of the things I'd seen or thought I'd seen the couple of times I'd sneaked a peek through the curtain-hole at the audience in the indoor auditorium.

  16. Terry, sitting on the table, grew very still, ceased the swinging of her feet, and turned to peek cautiously out at him from the kitchen window.

  17. He's jus' takin' a peek to make sure, I guess.

  18. Kedzie did not know that the operator behind the wall could peek and peer while his picture-wheel rolled out the cataract of photographs.

  19. He bent closer to peek at the name of the author.

  20. Then he works his silk dicer up off'm his ears, and has a peek at that.

  21. Gettin' a peek at things," he cried, stumping heavily across the thick carpet.

  22. But I just wanted to get a peek at things.

  23. Don't try to peek at it or open the box until the right time has come.

  24. Every Christmas he would peek at the new books in the bookshops, only to find the same old stories printed, with new pictures, meant to please grown-ups.

  25. You peek first, Susy, and see if it looks nice," said one little girl, boosting her friend so that she could look through the bars in the upper part of the gate.

  26. I should think you'd be ashamed to peek before the party was ready!

  27. Seems to me I'll need to get out and get a peek at Silas Mallinsbee's coal.

  28. We'll picket them both while we eat and get a peek around the place.

  29. You can peek round the edges," said she, "but you mustn't be seen or heard or even suspected.

  30. It was all dark there, an he walked in the side gate and tried to peek in the winders, only the shades was down an he couldn’t see a thing.

  31. She was tellin me about her boarders an I told her I thought mebbe one of em was a friend o’ Hannah Heath’s so she said I might peek through the key hole of the cubberd an see.

  32. There was always, even to the last, something feminine in Martin Culpepper's face when he laughed--a kind of alternating personality of the other sex seemed to tiptoe up to his consciousness and peek out of his kind eyes.

  33. At times, if you peek down in that hole near the Fairmont and are careful not to be run over you may see them bustling about.

  34. The tray is heavy and no place to put it, and in my journeying I peek at the bill and it's over 75 cents, and when I finally sit down opposite a stranger I find on my tray two salads, and when I chose the other I don't remember.

  35. And between the boards that cover a door in the high wall, one may peek and catch a glimpse of hollyhocks in a row and roses running wild, trellises of green lattice and ghosts of beautiful ladies having afternoon tea.

  36. Mr. Francis Peek has recently published a useful but saddening little book, whose title I have attached to this article.

  37. Laddy, take a peek at the side of that lava ridge," sharply called Jim.

  38. Then, careless-like, I began to peek at Rojas.

  39. But say, Beldin', speaking of looks, have you got a peek yet at the Spanish girl?

  40. He did not wring his hands nor weep, Nor did he peek or pine, But he drank the air as though it held Some healthful anodyne; With open mouth he drank the sun As though it had been wine!

  41. Get a peek at the colors o' them silk duds.

  42. I've a notion to get a peek at the village," he said.

  43. One of these days--mind, one of these days, I surely will have a duplicate key made and get a peek into that drawer, which you never open in my presence.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peek" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    blink; cast; flash; gander; gaze; glance; glimpse; look; meddle; nose; peek; peep; peer; sight; slant; spy; wink