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Examples of peep in a Sentence
Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2023
At a clandestine meeting in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in early 2001, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin gasped and peeped.
—Sam Kiley, CNN, 14 Oct. 2023
Advertisement He was also convicted in 1981 for molesting a 6-year-old neighbor and in 1984 for peeping in a locker room at the University of California, Santa Barbara campus, Deputy District Attorney Melissa Diaz said in court.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2023
Check out a fall foliage map to figure out when the trees in your area will be looking their most vibrant, then plan a romantic drive or foliage train ride to peep those leaves.
—Corinne Sullivan, Country Living, 1 Aug. 2023
Indecent exposure: Mayfield Road At 6:50 a.m. Aug. 27, a woman called police to her condominium on a report of a peeping Tom.
—cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
Sometimes, they’re framed by thick, windowpane-like lines that cast the viewer as a peeping Tom.
—Laura Bannister Carla Valdivia Nakatani Jameson Montgomery Christopher Kuo Gisela Williams, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
Before long, their colts peeped through the tall grass, begging for food and learning to dance.
—Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
For a thrilling date, hop a private helicopter to Glacier National Park (otherwise a three-hour drive from the resort) and peep the changing colors.
—Alison Lewis, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023
Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
Tupac may not have known, but Suge and his peeps definitely knew.
—Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
Since then, barely a peep from the G.O.P. corruption fighters.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
Stewart accessorized her look with long, silver earrings and matching heels featuring a peep toe.
—Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
Or leaf peep from the water on a Portsmouth Harbor Cruises tour on Great Bay or the Cocheco River.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2023
Conceivably one of them could use Cemex or some other pro-labor NLRB decision as a pretext to withdraw support, but none has raised a peep about that yet.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
Yet last week, when Mr. Sunak and his family spent a 10-day vacation at their multimillion-dollar penthouse apartment in Santa Monica, Calif., there was scarcely a peep about it in the British papers.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
The world’s top surfing dogs took to the water in individual and freestyle peeps and pups divisions in the 18th annual Surf Dog Surf-A-Thon
The world’s top surfing dogs took to the water in individual and freestyle peeps and pups divisions in the 18th annual Surf Dog Surf-A-Thon.
—K.c. Alfred, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
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Word History
Verb (1)
Middle English pepen, of imitative origin
Verb (2)
Middle English pepen, perhaps alteration of piken to peek
Verb (1)
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun (1)
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (2)
15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a
Noun (2)
1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Peep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peep. Accessed 2 Dec. 2023.
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Kids Definition
peep
1 of 4 verbpeep
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4 of 4 nounVerb
Middle English pepen "to peep, make the sound of a young bird"; the word began as an imitation of the sound made by a young bird
Verb
Middle English pepen "to peek," an altered form of earlier piken "to peek"
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PEEP
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