peck

So I sit down and try to peck out a few words, a few thoughts on a couple ideas I have.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024

Mr Rubiales has always maintained the kiss was a "consensual peck" but in the wake of the incident he was forced to resign as president of the Spanish football federation.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024

The girl turned away before he could give her a peck on the head.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2023

Around him in the fenced-in yard, four goats bleat and 18 turkeys and more than 20 chickens peck at the grass.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

Under my mother’s glare, he gave Caroline a timid peck on the cheek, then wrapped his arms around me and gave me a bear hug.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

Back in Beadnell, on the kind of grey blustery day when the rain pecks at your face, the Craster Arms has a steady stream of windbent visitors.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

While some of the pecks are small, he said, “in the most extreme cases, the largest wounds can cover a big portion of the calves’ back and can be one meter long or even bigger.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

“And as they say, ‘The hen pecks grain by grain.’”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022

Every time the feisty bird's beak makes contact with the hard surface — at up to 20 pecks per second — the impact vibrates throughout its head and neck.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2022

Cautiously it walks up to it and pecks.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Arkansas pecked out a deal with Arkansas-based Tyson Foods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

But surely some American women can relate to feeling pecked or prodded, and pushed aside when they reach middle age.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

But it does need to survive being pecked by a bird or chewed by other small animals.

From NewsForKids.net ● Feb. 23, 2024

After the cicadas emerged in May 2021, fewer than 10% of the clay caterpillar models were pecked each week.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 19, 2023

The birds to my right squawked and pecked on the bars of their cages.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

Perhaps the Chargers’ first preseason game — and who plays first, most or not at all during it — will indicate a pecking order.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Grace Scrivens was touted as a future England batter for a few years but seems to have fallen down the pecking order, while Charis Pavely and Ella McCaughan are the other potential in-form youngsters.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Intestacy rules provide a pecking order for who inherits a person's assets when they die without a will, but currently do not recognise unmarried partners.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

“We keep pecking, pecking, pecking at them, and I start to see light at the end of the tunnel.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Seagulls wailed, a skinny shorebird ran up and down the sand, busily pecking.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich