peck

Example Sentences

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That sent chills down the spines of Motor City executives who fretted—fairly perhaps—about safety and their pecking order in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal

For decades, chicken thighs rated so low in the national pecking order that U.S. poultry producers unloaded much of their dark-meat yield to hungry markets abroad in Russia, Mexico, and across Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal

Glenn brought a peck basket of them, from somewhere, and left it on Tansy’s desk.

From Literature

Abiding by the sartorial pecking order has become more complicated as the financial industry’s dress code has gotten even more casual since the pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal

They have actually pecked the puppies away from the food pans until they have gone through and taken what they want.

From Literature