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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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