peacock

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

Fish such as wolf fish, peacock bass, and South American lungfish were especially common, accompanied by reptiles including caimans and turtles, and mammals such as capybaras, pacas, and armadillos.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025

This peacock stands out even in Macau, a city that embraces garishness almost as much as it does light pollution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

She compensates with mascara and turquoise eye shadow, so that her eyes look a bit like two peacock feathers.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

To get a sense of the topography, walk 10 minutes from the center of town up to the Citadelle, a fortress where peacocks roam and you’ll have panoramic views over the Gulf of St. Tropez.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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

Of the four remaining peacocks, one has several tail feathers missing, indicating that someone may have attempted to snatch him, said Nielsen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

In comparison to Leslie, Brenda and Ellie looked like a pair of peacocks with fake tail feathers.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

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

He let his blue eyes rest upon them calmly as they peacocked across to St. George's Hospital, still laughing, and evidently discussing him.

From The Green Carnation by Robert Smythe Hichens

Although the term is clinically obsolete, examples of male peacocking are as close as the nearest bejeweled Patek Philippe, sterling-silver rodeo belt buckle or jumped-up, gold-plated pickup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

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

The Guardian's Rebecca Nicholson described it as "peacocking, mesmerising television" in her four-star review, but did warn the show was "demanding drama, to be approached with care and focus".

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2024

There is a boastfulness and peacocking at times.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2023

My mount was peacocking on the grass when suddenly we heard a "Halloa!" and the whole field went hammering like John Gilpin down the hard high road.

From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Margot Asquith