peter out
Example Sentences
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She doesn’t want to put Basil and Peter out of work, but the environmental case is too pressing to ignore.
From Los Angeles Times
He sat Peter out for the rest of the activity and had a talk with him.
From Literature
Yaw Ngoha was 19 and had a basic school diploma when he followed his older brother Peter out of one of Ghana’s poorest regions to Bawdie.
From Reuters
I couldn’t refrain from sounding Peter out on the subject, and he instantly replied that Dussel had been lying.
From Literature
They cried, they snogged, they traded “I love yous,” and then they never saw each other again — until last night, when the show trotted Peter out onstage to submit to its ritualistic relationship post-mortem.
From New York Times
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