pegged out
Example Sentences
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“The easiest thing would have been for Robert to plow on until he truly pegged out and by which time the estate probably would have been run into the ground or mismanaged,” Bonneville says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
And then the rest, pegged out in those familiar straight lines, with Rooney not just immobile but strangely deathly in that muted No10 role, the clogged artery at the heart of this England team.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2014
Whereas the billionaire lifestyle is pegged out around a notion of absolute certainties, a sense of being continually replete, recumbent on a giant mattress made of veal, helicoptered from triple-glazed pyramid to glass-walled enormo-drome.
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2013
More than 25,000 claims were pegged out in a few hours.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
