peck

Example Sentences

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"You can play once or twice for your country, struggle to pick up a contract and then slip down the pecking order."

From BBC

Injury then gave Marcus Smith the chance to supplant Ford in the pecking order on the 2024 tour of New Zealand, before Fin Smith emerged in last year's Six Nations.

From BBC

As a bonus, she even offers up her cheek for a peck, which is as affectionate as things get between them.

From Los Angeles Times

His friends were wary —“They’ll peck your eyes out!”—but he only smiled and shook his head.

From Literature

I know how to coo and cluck at a laying hen so she won’t peck at your hands when you go to take her still-warm eggs away.

From Literature