peacock

Scenic painter Miriam Hellmann was the skillful hand behind the mural’s final product: an image of a giant, bright orange poppy, a butterfly and a peacock, along with floral and faunal symbols.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

He doesn’t peacock, he doesn’t preen; he is visibly angry with himself when he doesn’t produce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

From her perch in New Orleans, she has also reported on natural disasters, the big business of Mardi Gras and her neighborhood peacock, Mr. P.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

This week, Rausch’s fellow Traitors, Housewives Candiace Dillard Bassett and Lisa Rinna, get to peacock in a massive crown and, for Rinna, a brooch as bewitching as it is deadly.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026

“That’s why I’m out here. Thought I might find some peacock snails or red leaf beetles. I’m running out of ideas.”

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

“The house was small, so we built onto it to add a kitchen. We use the barns as a sanctuary for rescued horses, ducks, chickens, peacocks, goats, and other animals,” she went on.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

For all the talk about horses, the Kentucky Derby has a lot of peacocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

On the course, elaborate tombs of the city's past rulers poke through tangled trees that are home to peacocks, troops of monkeys and mongooses.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025

The Ryde Hotel staff are desperately missing their favorite occupants — the gorgeous peacocks known to fawn about on the orchard-lined banks of the Sacramento River and mischievously wander through the hotel’s banquet hall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

The working people were dressed muchly as we did out in the country, but there were a few gentry who stuck out of the crowd like peacocks wandering in the chicken pen.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

In a choreographic sequence during the final seconds of his program, Malinin peacocked to the fans—and judges—with the kind of daring maneuver that’s more common on snow than ice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Ultimately, “banter” is nothing more than a buzzword, the 2024 answer to the “sapiosexual” craze where online daters peacocked their degrees by designating their sexual preference as “intellectuals.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

Charles’s coronation was a full-color spectacle, showing off the peacocked glory of British tradition and the bells and whistles of 21st-century TV.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2023

The helicopter landed just before 3 p.m. and Mick Jagger, 26 years old, bushy-haired and chewing gum, peacocked onto the pavement.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2019

"Aren't we having the time of our life?" exclaimed Rosamond, as she peacocked about, gazing over her shoulder at her long court train.

From Patty in Paris by Carolyn Wells

But the filmmakers are more than just passive observers of an extroverted intellectual peacocking while the light is dying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

He gives the example of going out for a meal in Lagos and how peacocking is so important.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025

Inevitably, the group’s career cooled throughout the ’90s and early 2000s as peacocking hard rock gave way to grunge and pop-punk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

It was a novel turn for an artist venerated for his dexterity, his peacocking, his exuberance, his progressivism.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

Why should I want my cook to go peacocking about with a pink parasol, making a fool of herself, and bringing disgrace on the house?

From If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson by Barry Pain