peeked
Example Sentences
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As the sun peeked out from behind the clouds at 9:30 a.m. on the day after a rainy Saturday, the strollers at Runway Playa Vista rolled in.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
As Carter peeked through a crack in the tomb’s sealed door, his exchange with Carnarvon ranks as one of the most famous in all archaeology: “ ‘Can you see anything?’
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
The truck lumbered through the forest in the setting sun, stopping at a grove of bigcone Douglas-fir trees, where West and a colleague unloaded the cage, lifted the door and waited as Orange peeked outside.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
A school notebook, dusty and dog-eared, peeked from the rubble.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2025
A slope of the marble head peeked from the sand where its face had half sunk and sneered now at the rising tide.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
