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How to use peg in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Peg means a cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects. Example: “Hang your coat on the peg and come in.”

Examples of peg by meaning

nounA protrusion used to hang things on.

  • Hang your coat on the peg and come in.

nounA support; a reason; a pretext.

  • a peg to hang a claim upon

nounA fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.

  • The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg.2022, Simon Dingle, Steven Boykey Sidley, chapter 7, in Beyond Bitcoin, Icon Books, →ISBN

nounA small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.

  • The name had come to mean any aromatic essence of herbs by the time the first thirsty colonial poured a peg of Who-shot-John into his mint water.1953, S. S. Field, The American drink book, page 65

nounA leg or foot.

  • "Now I'm cleaned up for thee: tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books."1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 2, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

nounA topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.

  • Journalists and prospective sources wishing to attract their attention are constantly on the lookout for pegs.2010, Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan, Keywords in News and Journalism Studies, page 111

nounA stump.

  • Lindy hit the pegs with five deliveries out of six.1961, Colin McCool, Cricket is a Game, page 123

nounThe penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo.

  • Get your strap-on out and give me a nice peg!

More sentences with peg

  • We used a mallet to drive the tent pegs into the ground.From the entry mallet
  • The peg fit so snugly in the hole that it couldn't be pulled out by hand.From the entry snugly
  • I made a blind hole in the wall for a peg. I dug a hole and planted a tree in it.From the entry hole
  • The round peg will fit into the circular hole.From the entry fit into
  • The coat fell off the peg.From the entry off
  • Upon arrival at the campsite, they discovered that they had forgotten the tent pegs; they had to use rocks and logs to tether the tent instead.From the entry tent peg
  • Dot-connecting exercises have pegged New Orleans Saints wide receivers Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed to the Broncos.2025 November 3, Nick Kosmider, “Why I expect the Broncos to stand pat at the NFL trade deadline”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry dot-connecting
  • The chances of energy bouncing peg legging within them is a long shot.2017, Enwenode Onajite, Practical Solutions to Integrated Oil and Gas Reservoir Analysis, →ISBN. From the entry peg-leg
  • A body moving with misalignment is like trying to put a square peg through movement's circle hole.2016 March, Jason Kelly, “Why We Need to Function”, in The Balanced Body: Move Well—Train Better—Avoid Injury, [Scotts Valley, Calif.]…. From the entry wear and tear
  • Bolts, pitons (pegs), slings and other assorted ironmongery were used for directly aided climbing.2014, John White, The Indoor Climbing Manual, page 183. From the entry ironmongery
  • The ERM was an arrangement that pegged most European currencies’ exchange-rate movements within limited bands.2011, Marc Flandreau, Getting to Yes (Again) with Germany. From the entry erm
  • We see him peg legging his way down the alley as Twist gives the signal once more.2011, Matthew Specktor, Sean Howe, The Sting, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry peg legging
  • The car pulled off the road with the headlights glaring at the 'peg legged' deer.2009, Carlos Reid, Stalking the Warden, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry peg legged
  • As they say, you can't fit a square peg in a round hole.[2005, Gini Graham Scott, “Dealing with Danger”, in A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses: Dealing with Bullies, Idiots…. From the entry square peg in a round hole
  • Eventually the fungus produces a structure called an infection peg or hostorium.1993, Turf Management Digest, page 97. From the entry hostorium
  • Harvest was promptly pegged as a "lite" group, a purveyor of pop puffery.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 294. From the entry puffery
  • "If that pegs the needle, then the wiring between the sender and gauge is bad."1989 December, Popular Mechanics, volume 166, number 12. From the entry peg the needle
  • Then she carefully hooked the hat back on to the peg with the walking-stick.1988, Roald Dahl, “The Hat and the Superglue”, in Matilda, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry superglue
  • "I had you pegged as the Romeo of some plush, private school."1986, Emilie Richards, Something So Right, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry refantasize
  • "I used to go down the discos, wear pegs and American bowling shirts."1982, Paul Barker, The Other Britain: A New Society Collection. From the entry pegs
  • The nanga of Nubia is similar; here also, long wooden pegs prevent the strings from slipping.1975, Sibyl Marcuse, A survey of musical instruments, page 403. From the entry nanga
  • I don't know what they went to ask her for; but Percy and Harold didn't peg out.1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 64. From the entry peg out
  • "Even so, all six subjects immediately pegged the needle in their first attempt to reach midscale."1957, Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences. From the entry peg the needle
  • You are tired now and you find it hard, but you peg away.1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 94. From the entry peg away
  • Peder Piber et a peg of piggled pebbers) won’t play ball with W R.1947, Ward Moore, “Consequences of a Discovery”, in Greener Than You Think, New York, N.Y.: William Sloane Associates, Inc., page 53. From the entry scientess
  • Each log was pinned to the poles by wooden pegs and lockdowns.1931, State University of Iowa. Bureau of Business Research, Iowa studies in business (issues 10-15, page 24). From the entry lockdown
  • Think Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with extra pegging.2026 July 3, Catherine Shoard, “‘I feel both thrilled and ruined by this’: Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on making sex comedy The…. From the entry pegging
  • Some economists have pegged a new word to this phenomenon where, rather than raise prices, companies cut services previously provided: skimpflation.2022 March 17, Sally French, “One of the most basic hotel amenities is disappearing”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser. From the entry skimpflation
  • Tall and limber already, her figure is filling out in ways that peg her a stone-cold fox in a year’s time.2016, Kim Savage, After the Woods, page 248. From the entry stone-cold fox
  • The Credit is also macronationally pegged to the Australian Dollar at a rate 1Cr is equal to $1AU.2016 November 12, Itsannarchy, MicroWiki. From the entry macronationally
  • She hadn't pegged him for a manscaper.2014, Nikki Logan, Awakened by His Touch, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry manscaper
  • The hard woods were used for pegging, the soft woods for cradling the load and the springy woods for carrying it.2013, Eric Sloane, Weather Almanac, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry springy

Meaning of peg

  1. noun A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
  2. noun A protrusion used to hang things on.
  3. noun A support; a reason; a pretext.

Full definition of peg

Questions about peg in a sentence

How do you use peg in a sentence?
Peg is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Hang your coat on the peg and come in.”
What is a short sentence with peg?
“The coat fell off the peg.”
What does peg mean?
Peg means a cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peg (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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