Together they peered and peeped, ducking behind the curtains as the stranger approached, and gazing out again the moment his back was turned.
She peered discreetly through the window, and held up a detaining hand.
She brushed them hastily together, andpeered up into his face.
Then, and not till then, she opened her door and peered cautiously at that other door across the landing.
She peered in her husband's face with simulated anxiety, but his smile breathed pleasure unqualified.
The boys turned out the gas and tiptoeing to the window, peered cautiously out.
She peered out the window, an ugly little pucker creasing her forehead.
As soon as they were satisfied that there was no one in sight, Jo Ann made her way up to the old Ford and peered inside, Florence close behind.
The taller one, who was a little squint-eyed and had a scar on his chin, drew his brows together into a deep frown as he peered from under his sombrero at Jo Ann.
Just before reaching the top she halted and peered cautiously in the direction of the men's voices, then scurried silently back.
The Master started, peered at Bara Miyan and forgot to chew his soothing khat leaves.
Master, as he came close and peered down by the fire-gleam roaring on the beach, sending sheaves of sparks in comet-tails of vanishing radiance down-wind with rushing sand.
He turned in his seat, and peered at the shimmer of the city's lights, strung like a luminous rosary along the river's edge.
Old Bara Miyan bent shaggy white brows at the Master, and peered out intently from under the hood of his burnous.
His eyes glowered with hate as he peered across the narrowing strip of waves and surf.
The Master raised a hand, glanced at a compass set like a wrist-watch, peered a moment at one of the charts, and then nodded toward the door that led into the pilot-house.
He peeredcontemplatively at the dark silhouette of the Arab, motionless, impassive in the dusk.
Rrisa, wide-eyed, with curling lips of scorn, peered down at the Sheik.
He drew an emaciated arm about her and for a moment peered down into her face.
With eyes of hate and pain he peered back at the darkening line of the Iron Mountains.
The eyes of "Captain Alden" narrowed with sudden, painful emotion as shepeered at the Master.
Leclair peered from under knit brows at the altimeter needle and the inclinometer.
With clenched fists and widening eyes he peered at Alden.
He grabbed the sill to stop himself and peered in.
The shining eyes of venturesome mice and rats peered out at the old man from cracks and coverts, but he went on with his work, rapt, absorbed, and noted none of these things.
Teddy picked it up wonderingly and unwound the paper, while Chet peered over his shoulder and the girls watched breathlessly from above.
The girls started, and Billie, drawing some bushes aside, peered out in the direction of the sound.
He walked cautiously toward the dark entrance and peered inside.
The smallest of the group turned himself about and peered up into Weldon's face.
Leaving Piggie to pick her own way along the rocky ridge, he rose in his stirrups, shaded his eyes with his hands and peered anxiously towards the spot.
She was taking her clothes out of the closet when there was a low knock at her door, and Mammy Riah peered inquiringly into the room.
As the housekeeper came out into the hall, she raised her spectacles to her forehead, and peered nervously into Caroline's face.
For a minute, before delivering her message, she peered gravely at Caroline by the dim light of the window.
While she rambled on, she had been busily folding the clothes and packing them into the trunk, and pausing now in her work, she peered into Caroline's face.
She peeredaround into the strange velvet darkness with troubled eyes.
One or two scowling men, or curiously apathetic women in whose eyes the light of life had died and been left unburied, peered from dark doorways.
He stooped and peered into the white face of the still unconscious woman, and then looked suspiciously toward Sam who was standing sullenly behind Michael.
As soon as he was out of sight she shuffled down from her doorstep to the corner and peered after him through the morning sunshine.
Without comprehension, Underwood peered into those hulls and knew the answer.
Phyfe paused and peered with difficulty through the helmet of the spacesuit.
She moved to the adjacent table and peered into the wound that Akers had made in Jandro's head.
Standing alone in one corner, Underwood peered at an object that appeared to be nothing but a series of opaque, polychrome globes tangent to each other and mounted on a pedestal.
They peered into the vat, the base of the mound of flesh being hidden by a thick, soupy liquid.
For a moment no one spoke while Phyfe moved to the opening and peered down.
Nerving myself for the task thus set me, I peered hither and thither, taking in every article in the room before I made a step forward.
He peered through his glasses and at them with the smile of a discoverer.
She peered out around the side of the carry-all and scrutinized the landscape.
She leaned back upon her own heels, and Clementina daintily lifted the edge of her skirt a little, and peered over at her feet.
Henry Burns peered eagerly ahead, but looked only for the point of land behind which lay their safety.
They crept up closely and peeredin through the pane.
There were no signs of life about the camp, and, softly opening the flap of the tent, hepeered within.
Henry Burns lay flat on a shelving bit of rock, with his face close to the water, and peereddown to the bed below.
The boys rushed down to the water's edge and peered out over the bay, straining their eyes to see whence the sound came.
So they lay close in the underbrush and peered through the trees down toward the landing.
And he again and still more sharply peered into the countenance of the young man.
The besiegers, appalled by their own riot and the stillness that had succeeded, stood back a little and peered in.
There was earnestness, intensity, in the usually pleasant gray-blue eyes as he peered now up the street, now down.
She saw, and felt, a white tragic face out of which peered eyes with a gloomy fire in them.
Once Humphrey went rather moodily to a window and peered out.
Malcolm was beginning to plan his movements when he became aware of a man wrapped in a heavy cloak who approached from the direction of the arcade and peered into every nook and cranny.
He ceased as suddenly as he began, and then coming to the door of the deckhouse, peered in and spoke to the fever-stricken and wounded men in such suave and kindly tones, that Tom could scarcely believe the evidence of his own senses.
Little Sanders, trotting far in the advance with three or four light riders, threw himself from his horse, unslung his field-glass, and peered long and anxiously into the northward valley.
Over among the quarters the humid eyes of frightened women peered from many a door-way, watching with fluttering hearts for sign of action.
As they passed by the postern gate, Colin craned round and peered within.
The lady had stooped down and had cautiously peered into the hall.
He stopped and peered over the shoulders of the men and women in front of him that he might see the better.
The lieutenant-in-command wiped the snow from his eyes as he peered round the canvas side-screen and asked tersely what the next ship ahead was trying to signal.
He walked across the tar-paper surface to the edge, leaned over, and peered into the alley.
He walked to the edge of the building and peered into the alley.
He peered closely into the roll he held in his hand, and pressing the packet slightly open, he slowly deciphered the writing.
Sir George opened the casement window, and peered out into the gloom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
