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Example Sentences

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Out back, he peered over the bluff, an 80-foot drop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Investigating the smell, she ventured about 50 feet off the dirt road, toward heavy woods, where she peered into a tree-lined creek bed.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Nearby, tourists on another bridge, partly destroyed by US bombs during the Korean War, posed for photographs and peered through binoculars at the North Korean city of Sinuiju on the opposite shore.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Don’t blame them if they covered their faces and peered between the cracks of their fingers.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2025

From the Coldwater site and another site, named Timberline, directly on the mountain, Johnston peered through a big, boxy instrument called a correlation spectrometer.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone