How to Use peg in a Sentence

peg

1 of 2 noun

• Her coat hung on a peg by the door.
• One of the simplest way to store items in the garage is with a peg rail.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 4 Jan. 2023
• Any comedic take would inevitably take the doll down a peg.
  — Time, 27 June 2023
• This is a clear case of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
  — Graham Glass, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• The engineers came to the clay model and drove pegs into it to the depth of the hard points.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 20 June 2023
• The utilities and the state peg that cost at $3 billion.
  — Kathleen Ronayne, ajc, 14 Dec. 2021
• To knock him down a peg, though, most of his rivals are playing by the old rules.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2023
• At the same time, the USDD supply is reduced, helping push the price back to the 1:1 peg.
  — Omkar Godbole, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• The foundation sold most of the bitcoins to defend the TerraUSD peg, the group said.
  — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 16 May 2022
• Frame the peg panel using maple trim boards for a more finished look.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Hamas has launched a war to destroy Israel—or to do its best to weaken it, to take it down a peg.
  — Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2023
• For others, the mushy texture knocked Good & Gather down a few pegs.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 8 Jan. 2024
• The stablecoin briefly lost its peg against the dollar, dropping at times to around 90 cents.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2023
• Made from high-quality oak, the bed has carved feet, and joints fixed with small wooden pegs.
  — Zara Khan, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• To make these shelves, cut a wood round in half, add a peg hook to one of the pieces, and glue the two semi-circles together at the straight edges.
  — Katie Bandurski, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2022
• Forgo a peg and flip one of the shelves upside down for another take on this build.
  — Katie Bandurski, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2022
• Crow was a bit of a square peg in an early ’90s rock landscape that favored raw bands like Hole.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• On occasion, his pieces feel like fitting a square peg in a round hole.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• The poll also makes clear that Goldbeck needs Montgomery Steppe to be taken down a peg.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
• Nearby, a peg neatly holds a fist full of dull chains, tools of his trade, waiting to be sharpened.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 13 July 2022
• But these stations are still a crucial peg in the climate crisis.
  — John McCracken, The New Republic, 11 July 2023
• At age 3, kids may be ready to move on from peg puzzles, but jigsaw puzzles might still be too hard.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 26 Sep. 2022
• Sometimes people are just trying so hard to get a round peg into a square hole.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2022
• When Tom returns, Allan's been knocked down a peg and lost his status.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2022
• Dotted lines show trading​range for peg to U.S. dollar.
  — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• One of the strengths of this offering is a kind of consistency that’s hard to achieve in off the peg casual-wear.
  — Alexander Freeling, Robb Report, 14 Sep. 2022
• Hopefully, the thesp will deliver a performance that moves him up a peg or two in the in-the-works sequel.
  — Joe Tobal, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2022
• Amid the doom and gloom, the agency Wunderman Thompson decided this spring to take A.I. down a peg.
  — Yiwen Lu, New York Times, 18 July 2023
• Even when the staff find small moments of pride in their work, Clyde takes it upon herself to knock everyone down a peg.
  — Bon Appétit, 23 Nov. 2021
• Insert dowels into the holes to form hanging pegs for mugs, utensils, and more.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023

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peg

2 of 2 verb

• Is the tent pegged down all the way?
• His bonus is pegged to how many sales he makes each year for the company.
• Leonard may be the safest choice Maybe the safest pick pegged for the top 10: Ryan Leonard.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• The betting odds have pegged Young as the favorite to be the Panthers’ pick.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 21 Apr. 2023
• Plans call for 10% of the apartments to be pegged to affordable rents.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
• Harbaugh doesn't like to peg his team as a run-only team.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2022
• Coleman had been pegged as the probable starter at left guard.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
• Solitude had been one of four resorts in the state to initially peg Nov. 18 as its start date.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
• Dallas is ranked ninth, which would peg them as the first Western Conference team out of the playoffs come the spring of 2023.
  — Dallas News, 11 Oct. 2022
• The New York Times pegged the number of affected staffers upwards of 200.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2023
• Berman’s office pegs the average cost of a wig at $1,500.
  — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024
• The suit initially pegged damages at $150 million when it was filed, though the figure has changed.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• Kaberle arrived with the highest profile of the three and was pegged as the guy to resuscitate a stale power play and be the piece to put the team over the top.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• Billboard’s Joe Lynch pegged it as the best performance on the 2023 Grammys telecast.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2023
• Some even pegged him as the first cornerback off the board, ahead of Devon Witherspoon of Illinois.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• There’s still no official date for the store opening, but reports peg it for later this month.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2023
• Prosecutors have pegged the scope of the FTX fraud as high as $9 billion, which dwarfs all but the most egregious swindles.
  — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 29 Sep. 2023
• Parker echoes that the moment was intended to be a surprise for fans pegged to the show’s 25th anniversary.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023
• State law raises it every summer, pegged to the rate of inflation.
  — Mike Rogoway | [e-mail], oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2023
• The visitors had hope going into the break despite being pegged back for most of the first period.
  — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Hicks said the songs originally were pegged for a full-length studio album, and that’s still likely to happen.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 23 Feb. 2023
• It’s pegged to the dollar and will be gradually available to PayPal’s customers in the United States.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• That last, doomed culture crumbled in less than 100 years, pegged to an animal hard to transport, with a market far, far away.
  — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2023
• Once pegged as a $125 million project, some redesign and inflation are expected to increase the cost.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
• Initial reports pegged the number of people on board at either six or eight.
  — Mosheh Gains, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• The total cost of the supplemental funding request was pegged at just over $105 billion.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2023
• But keen eyes partial to small and fun driver's cars will quickly peg it as no ordinary Corolla—far from it.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 14 Sep. 2022
• To avoid the issue, some retirees choose countries that either use the dollar or peg their currencies to the dollar, such as Panama.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Later estimates that tried to capture the toll across the world pegged the case fatality rate between 2% and 3%.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• Most credit cards have variable rates, often pegged to the fluctuations in the prime rate, which rises when the Fed boosts the short-term federal funds rate.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024