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peep out
verb as in peep/peer
Example Sentences
Didn’t hear a peep out of them.
"Manit might be an old softy when it comes to you hoodlums, but I know better. You're lucky I brought you here and not straight to the jail. If I hear one peep out of you”—he held up the keys and jangled them in Somkit's face—"I'll be locking you up where you really belong.”
Outside in early spring, it’s time for snowdrops, crocuses and aconites, which peep out through the frost.
“His father gets whacked, he steps up, takes care of his family, takes care of the business. Not a peep out of him.”
I have congratulated him on passing a resolution in the Canadian Parliament condemning China for its treatment of Uighurs, but I haven't heard a peep out of him about human rights violations in other places because it suits them to be selective in their condemnation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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