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peck at

VERB
  1. eat like a bird
    The anorexic girl just picks at her food

How To Use peck at In A Sentence

  • Because they are crammed so tightly, the birds go crazy and peck at each other.
  • There was complete and utter silence as Maggie looked around and the train puffed slowly away, gaining speed until it was a speck at the end of the valley.
  • The mother bird started to peck at me, but I dodged all the pecks and hit her beak with my mace.
  • Eating lunch at a small cafe, I saw a sparrow hop through the open door and peck at the crumbs near my table. Christianity Today
  • A bird had alighted in the sand with a flash of blue and white feather, to peck at something thrown from the train. Somewhere East of Life
  • Q WHY do birds peck at the brown patches on my lawn? The Sun
  • Sometimes they'll peck at a particularly luscious flower or leaf, too, but there's enough there and to spare so I don't grudge them their dietary needs.
  • Eating lunch at a small cafe, I saw a sparrow hop through the open door and peck at the crumbs near my table. Christianity Today
  • Are there going to be pulleys and balls in chutes and sleeping chickens which wake up at the sound of a bell and peck at something until something else falls and eventually a piping hot cup of perfectly brewed coffee is deposited on by bedside table. Coffee Conundra
  • Deal with the question seriously, do not just peck at it.
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