peppered
Example Sentences
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Hundreds of robotics startups, some just a couple years old, peppered the sprawling convention centre hoping to dazzle.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
As I peppered him with questions about the pink car and the Brinks armored truck, he remained cagey while slowly yielding information.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
McCarthy peppered journalists, congressional staff and even FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover with desperate appeals for evidence, but no one had any.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
His book reads as a conversational account peppered with occasional quips about contemporary political events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
She could hear Laxmi clearly, her sentences peppered every now and then with an Indian word, through the laminated wall between their desks.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
