Peck Sentence Examples

The cast skipped town leaving a peck of unpaid bills.

She crossed the room and gave him a quick peck on the cheek.

The imperial peck contains 554.548 cub.

She lifted her face to receive his kiss and he leaned forward, giving her a fatherly peck on the cheek - and a friendly squeeze.

Alasdair's wife, Jane, gave him a quick peck on the cheek.

Drying her hands, she watches the bird peck at the cracks in the paving, seeking whatever it is that starlings seek.

He sat next to Sarah, giving her a peck on the cheek.

Why not throw in " Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers "?

Themes of adultery, passion and despair displayed as stiff upper lip Stoicism with ne'er a peck on the cheek.

Sometimes a gentle peck is all a girl needs, especially on a first date.

This film got several Oscars including best actor for Gregory Peck.

No satisfactory life of Burghley has yet appeared; some valuable anonymous notes, probably by Burghley's servant Francis Alford, were printed in Peck's Desiderata Curiesa (1732), i.

Eliminates wastage, discourages vermin, fresh/dry food every peck.

The true star of the show is Gregory Peck 's daughter and her tomboy antics along with her brother and their friend.

Your chickens will be healthiest and thriving if you give them a space where they can scratch for bugs and peck, but you can also buy coops large enough for them to live comfortably year round.

I remember canoeing with my fiancée and it took all day to get up the nerve for a quick peck.

If you have done this type of kiss before you know that it is something much more intimate than your regular peck on the lips.

That's a peck of bullshit!

As he handed Consuelo hers, he gave her a peck on the cheek, "You are one smokin' hot Belle."

Peck's The Jacksonian Epoch (New York, 1899) is an account of national politics from 1815 to 1840, in which the antagonism of Jackson and Clay is emphasized.

It is usual to seed a bushel and a peck of wheat to the acre.

Dynamic young farmer James Peck set out to design a kitchen that would make a bold visual statement and stand the test of time.

Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt?

I doubt if Flying Childers ever carried a peck of corn to mill.

Themes of adultery, passion and despair displayed as stiff upper lip stoicism with ne'er a peck on the cheek.

Women can choose from several options including Gregory Peck, or for a slightly angled version for women with round faces, the Sheldrake is a good choice.

For a round men's style, take a look at the Gregory Peck.

One company that was quick to catch on to the benefit of printed advertising was the sportswear manufacture, Peck and Snyder.

These pictures would be placed on the front, with an advert for Peck and Snyder sportswear products printed on the back.

In 1976, audiences were held in suspense by Gregory Peck and Lee Remick in the first of the Omen series of horror movies.

In 2003, she wed fellow tattoo artist Oliver Peck, however, the couple divorced in 2007.

He assumed it was Fred, with a tray of food and a peck of good intentions, but just now, even his stepfather was not a welcome visitor.

The Germans, usually Republicans, roused for the defence of their schools, voted the Democratic state ticket at the next state election (1890), with the result that George Wilbur Peck, 2 the Democratic nominee, was chosen governor by 30,000 plurality.

In the winter he had a fire by which at noon he warmed his coffee in a kettle; and as he sat on a log to eat his dinner the chickadees would sometimes come round and alight on his arm and peck at the potato in his fingers; and he said that he "liked to have the little fellers about him."

I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts of peas with the weevil in them, and on my shelf a little rice, a jug of molasses, and of rye and Indian meal a peck each.

He had only kissed her once, a peck on the cheek.

The sense-development in this case is very obscure, and the name of the measure is found much earlier than "peck" as a variant form of "pick."

Peck (6 Cranch 87) that such a rescindment as that in the new state constitution was illegal, on the ground that a state cannot pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts; and at an expense of more than four millions of dollars the Federal government ultimately extinguished all claims to the lands.

Peck, led an unsuccessful movement to increase the number of Supreme Court judges and to relieve them of their circuit duties, and succeeded in defeating an attempt to repeal the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, which gave the Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction by writ of error to the state courts in cases where federal laws and treaties are in question.

Several of the rescuers, notably Professor Henry Everard Peck of Oberlin College, were arrested and were imprisoned in Cleveland for several months.

Connor entered the room and Sarah ran to him, giving him a hug and peck on the lips.