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How to use peer in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Peer means to look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. Example: “Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.”

Examples of peer by meaning

verbTo look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.

  • He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company...
  • He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as...
  • Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164

nounA noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.

  • a peer of the realm

nounSomeone who pees, someone who urinates.

  • You've turned your child into a submissive peer.2000 August 29, “Re: 32 month old urinating in his room! HELP!”, in alt.parenting.solutions (Usenet)
  • A submissive peer is generally a very submissive dog.2003 October 11, “Re: do female's "mark" their territory?”, in rec.pets.dogs.behavior (Usenet)

More sentences with peer

  • Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.From the entry race
  • The teacher peered shortsightedly around the classroom.From the entry shortsightedly
  • The precocious student had really overpassed her peers, and was reading books written for children several years older.From the entry overpass
  • She vowed to give up drinking during the exam period, but eventually succumbed to peer pressure and was out drinking with her friends within a week of the resolution.From the entry peer pressure
  • Both are peer reviewed and written by actual experts in the field.2026 June 15, u/as-well, r/askphilosophy (Reddit post), archived from the original on 17 Jul 2026. From the entry sep
  • Previously a crossbench peer in the House of Lords, now he sits for Labour.2025 February 19, Dickon Ross, “Opinion”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 3. From the entry sit for
  • Some of the hereditary peers can trace their family’s presence in the Lords back to medieval times.2024 July 20, Harriet Sherwood, “The last of the hereditary peers in the House of Lords”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry hereditary peer
  • Nothing can come from nowhere, and of course you'd be influenced by your peers and favorite artists.2024 December 5, CT57 & Victory Over Death, “Riding with CT57 on the Road to Nowhere”, in VHF, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2024. From the entry signalwave
  • He scoffs at his peers’ dystopian scenarios of supercharged misinformation and even, eventually, human extinction.2023 December 22, Steven Levy, “How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry dystopian
  • The sheltered world of academia suited Clarence, who for the first time was among his intellectual peers.2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), page 141. From the entry fluxions
  • The whites gather around. noah: Bone apple teeth. nam peers into the bowl.2021 November 23, Nam Nguyen, “Scene Ten: Phö^([sic]) Is The New Ramen, or, White People As They Truly Are”, in A Perfect Bowl of Pho…. From the entry bone apple teeth
  • Companies should survey their employees regularly to evaluate the implementation among the leaderships and peers.2018 December 10, Kathryn Vasel, “How to create a company culture that works”, in CNN. From the entry leadership
  • Suddenly, investigators are peering into the chemistry, physiology, and development of the nail.2018, “First Edition Preface”, in Adam I. Rubin, C. Ralph Daniel III, Nathaniel J. Jellinek, Richard K. Scher, editors, Scher and Daniel's…. From the entry onychology
  • Astonishingly, common themes emerged from my fellow peers who have worked at various call centers.2016, Gwen Foster Oglesby, “Supervisor Amnesty Day”, in Call Center: A Focus on Customer Service, Dallas, Tex.: Brown Books Publishing…. From the entry bye, Felisha
  • Each peer downloads the desired file, in chunks, from a multitude of other peers.2015, Jean-Marc Pierson, Large-scale Distributed Systems and Energy Efficiency: A Holistic View, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 271. From the entry chunk
  • Like our peers in Taiwan, we are dubbed the "strawberry generation" for bruising easily under pressure.[2015 August 9, Janice Heng, “The Pioneers' improbable heirs”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2015. From the entry strawberry generation
  • They emerged from behind headstones, crawled out of bushes, and peered around large trees.2015, Maria Mayer, Crone. From the entry ghoster
  • Big Tom peered over the rail and saw nothing but sea.2014, Jeff Bredenberg, The Dream Vessel. From the entry backboard
  • Looks like there's blood in the slime." Sue peered at the fungus.2013 September 10, Elva Thompson, Heartstar: Book One: the Key Made of Air, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry witch's egg
  • He peers from the road to the woods, tangled with switchgrass and swamp myrtle.2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 35. From the entry switchgrass
  • Her peers immediately began to complain about staffing problems, especially sick call-offs.2011, Helen M. Thamm, How to Manage with a Magic Wand, →ISBN. From the entry call-off
  • Time-blind societies are more relaxed and have a more casual attitude towards punctuality than their “time-bound” peers.2009, Susan Cartwright, Cary L. Cooper, The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well-being, page 305. From the entry timebound
  • Boo savored the sweetness of strength and gaffled his peers for their lunch money.2008, Jeffery Renard Allen, Holding Pattern: Stories, page 226. From the entry gaffle
  • RODRIGUEZ runs the FPA Capital fund, and by most measures he has outmanaged his peers.2008 April 6, Norm Alster, “It Wasn’t the Time to Be ‘Fully Invested’”, in New York Times. From the entry outmanage
  • “I can at least try,” he said, peering into both Toby's ears while rooting in his pockets.2008, Elizabeth Joy Arnold, Promise the Moon, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 364. From the entry earwaxy
  • I was pretty much going to be the last one among my peers to take the plunge.2007, Dr. David Gudgel, Brent Gudgel, Before You Get Engaged, page 203. From the entry take the plunge
  • The rising sun peered between the cypress trees flooding the Grand Plaza with yellow matinal light.2007: Roman Payne, Cities & Countries, chapter XIII: The Conscription of the Troops, page 187 (ModeRoom Press; →ISBN). From the entry acropolitan
  • Molly pulled the heavy antique-rose drape away from the window and peered out.2006, Linda Goodnight, A Very Special Delivery, page 270. From the entry antique rose
  • Were Paine and Jefferson out of step with their supergodly peers?2006, James R. Norton, Saving General Washington: The Right Wing Assault on America's Founding Principles, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin…. From the entry supergodly
  • "Looks like Navcom is tied into TacOps," Miska said, peering over his shoulder.2005, Shaka Ford, Metal Rain, page 45. From the entry tacops
  • Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 379. From the entry loganberry
  • This enables researchers to peer into the subconscious of traumatised patients.2001 June 21, “At the back of the mind”, in Economist, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2024. From the entry subconscious
  • What is the fund’s expense ratio, and how does it compare with those of its peers?2001, Brian O’Connell, Bill Griffeth, CNBC creating wealth: an investor’s guide to decoding the market, →ISBN, page 181. From the entry kick some tires
  • His family, though, are convinced the peer killed himself for real.2000 February 14, “Pseudocide: Doing a Reggie Perrin”, BBC News. From the entry pseudocide

Meaning of peer

  1. verb To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
  2. verb To come in sight; to appear.
  3. noun A look; a glance.

Full definition of peer

Questions about peer in a sentence

How do you use peer in a sentence?
Peer is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Her heart was racing as she peered into the dimly lit room.”
What is a short sentence with peer?
“a peer of the realm”
What does peer mean?
Peer means to look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peer (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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