peep - use in sentences

Object

  • tom: You're a peeping tom, not a killer.
  • round: From behind one pillar I could peep round quietly at the full front of the mansion.

Converse of object

  • hear: We haven't heard a peep from Northern Ireland.
  • take: Take a peep at the hottest girls from behind closed doors!

Preposition: through

  • keyhole: Thus it allows him to peep through the keyhole the Coat of Arms its own birth.
  • curtain: So I peeped through the curtains, just to make sure That the woman next door wasn't home.
  • window: If she wanted to see him she'd have to go in the bathroom and peep through the little window over the bathtub.

Adjective modifier

  • scared: So I first picked up my mask, then I took a scared peep around.
  • quick: Because when the shop first opened customers used to ask if they could pop in for a quick peep!
  • most: Or do most peeps not bother with safe sex?
  • few: Also squaring off a few peeps from active operations.

Preposition: over

  • top: He wears a thick, chunky blue sweater with a shirt collar just peeping over the top.

Preposition: behind

  • curtain: See it if you are a British politics buff, for the fun of a peep behind the curtain.

Modifies a noun

  • toe: Then wear with flat ballet pumps or peep toe heels for 1950s cool.
  • hole: A peep hole in the front lets you look through the marvel of the exhibition.
  • show: However, we now have a freak show rather than a peep show.

Modifying Another Word

  • just: He wears a thick, chunky blue sweater with a shirt collar just peeping over the top.
  • there: From the front window upon the left of the door there peeped a glimmer of a feeble light.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • through: There's lots of small holes which I can peep through in all directions.
  • out: Seen from the old bridge over the river, the tower peeps out from the trees like a child over a fence.

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