How to Use peck in a Sentence

peck

1 of 2 noun
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  • Lace then moved on to flirting with Casey at the bar and got a peck on the lips.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2022
  • There, Jonas cozied up to his wife and even gave her a peck on the cheek.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Apr. 2021
  • At one point, Delevingne gave Gomez a peck on the cheek as they were shown on the kiss cam.
    — Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2022
  • And not just a little peck on the cheek, but sucking face.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The bite was just a peck, but McBride swung his first crappie into the boat.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Rose lovers, this was a real kiss, not some quickie peck on the lips.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Gomez gave her co-star a lil peck on the cheek when the two were spotted on the kiss cam (per People).
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Humans are wired for touch – a handshake, a pat on the back, a friendly hug, a peck on the cheek.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Once on screen, Gomez leaned over to give Delevingne a peck on the cheek as her friend giggled.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 30 Dec. 2021
  • But their peck this time around was more friendship than scandal.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 June 2022
  • Her first peck happened on set at age 9; her first real kiss came at 16, again on set.
    — Kalia Richardson, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • Then, either go for a peck or a full-on, passionate kiss.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The bone slab bears 28 puncture marks, with one set of ten pecks spaced regularly in a line.
    — Ian Gilligan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Follow the prompts to submit clips of you and your dog cheering, acting cheesy, sharing a peck, and more.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • This one is like a peck, but just slightly more sensual.
    — Yerin Kim, Seventeen, 7 May 2021
  • French kissing is a little trickier than a peck on the lips and involves tongue.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 11 May 2023
  • More calcium with every peck means more cluck for your buck.
    — Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Especially if one partner wants more intense PDA than a hand squeeze or a peck on the cheek.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Mistletoe potential: Maybe a slight peck while Santa—that creep!—looks on.
    — Gena Kaufman, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Images Instead of a quick peck before running out the door in the morning, choose a lingering embrace.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Woman's Day, 20 Jan. 2023
  • As always, the performance ended with Nicks giving Buckingham a quick peck on the cheek.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The video, which has 1 million views on Twitter, appears to show the Nobel peace laureate attempting to give the boy a peck on the lips in the presence of an audience.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • If the skull really was absorbing shocks, then upon each peck, the brain should decelerate far less than the beak—just as when a car hits a bump, its body jerks less than its wheels do.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022
  • For a peck that your partner will remember, a little dab of this super hydrating lip mask will make a world of difference.
    — ELLE, 17 June 2022
  • In the backyard, ducks and chicken peck and squawk. Pontier found out Friday that her chickens were infected with avian influenza.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The heartwarming moment made the rounds Friday morning, as a video circulated on social media of Swift hugging the 6-year-old and giving her a peck on the cheek.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Eventually, Lace semi-peer pressures Casey into giving her a chaste peck on the lips… so, congrats?
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The heartwarming moment immediately made the rounds on social media, as a video circulated of Swift hugging the 6-year-old and giving her a peck on the cheek.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Chris Young made things at least a little easier on everyone by acquiring a peck of pitchers who all have familiarity with the pitching coach.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • There’s the odd, almost absurdist sense of fan fiction being writ large in witnessing this peck of Peters counseling each other over tragedies, joking with each other about web-shooter issues.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2021
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peck

2 of 2 verb
  • The woodpecker pecked a hole in the tree.
  • The hen pecked my finger.
  • He pecked his wife on the cheek as he headed out the door.
  • If the chick pecked the lever, a hidden speaker in the fake bird would sing a male finch’s song.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The four pigeons in the study quickly got the gist of things, learning to peck the end of the string attached to the food.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2013
  • Was this one of the hens that had pecked my hand or plucked feathers from the pink rump of another?
    — Hazlitt, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The Silesaurus sported a beak, which the researchers guessed was used to peck its insect prey off the ground.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2021
  • And in fact, feeding phalaropes can peck up to 180 times per minute, faster than any other bird.
    — Erica Tennenhouse, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Canada geese were pecking in the mud along the edge of the Truckee River.
    — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Cage-free production doesn’t mean that chickens are set free to peck at the ground and flutter their wings in the sun.
    — Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The birds use their left hemisphere to peck for seeds and their right hemisphere to detect predators.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
  • Gulls gather outside the fish plant, eager to peck at the bloody innards tossed their way.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The jackdaws had to look at that chart and peck the color they had previously been shown.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Throughout the park, men costumed as birds will jump out and savagely peck at you.
    — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Jenner pecked him on the cheek, and Chalamet returned the favor on her lips.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The inquisitive bird has been known to peck apart window trim and wiper blades on cars—and even steal passports from tourists.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Trompe l’oeil works date back to ancient Greece, when the artist Zeuxis is said to have painted convincing enough grapes that birds tried to peck at them.
    — Maggie Hennessy, Bon Appétit, 16 May 2022
  • The salary cap will likely continue to peck away at the Lightning, something that makes their run all the more impressive.
    — Tom Layberger, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • While the Brewers’ offense remained stagnant, the Pirates continued to peck away in the seventh against the bullpen.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Chickens picked their way through the wreckage, stopping to peck at broken glass jars of corn, beets and peaches stored for winter.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The study team had trained female finches to peck keys that would play back specific recordings of these birdsongs.
    — Olivia Ferrari, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2023
  • None of these three candidates are among the vultures trying to peck away at Feinstein.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The carving was likely made by pecking the contours using a lithic tool or a handpick.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Her kids peck out messages on this 1920s typewriter that sits on a vintage pine table.
    — Anna Logan, Country Living, 21 June 2023
  • In late spring, the fruit ripens slowly, but hopefully before birds returning from the South have time to peck pockmarks into it.
    — Washington Post, 13 July 2021
  • Her hunting and pecking on her iPad become a visual refrain that never gets old.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Richard Pollack, who keeps an eye on the birds at Harvard, said turkeys regularly held up traffic in the streets around campus and have been known to peck at the hubcaps of cars.
    — New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
  • His task was to search the ground carefully for carcasses amid layers of excrement as the birds pecked frantically at his hands and feet.
    — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Suet Feeders These feeders hold solid suet cakes or balls inside cage-like structures, allowing birds to perch on the wire and peck through at the goodies inside.
    — Kristen (kj) Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The Buried Secrets actress then placed the pumpkin on the floor of her chicken coop where several of her chickens gathered around to peck away at the edible Halloween decor.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023

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