Peered is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Peered meaning
simple past and past participle of peer
Using Peered
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of peer
- In the example corpus, peered often appears in combinations such as: peered at, peered into, and peered.
Context around Peered
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Peered
- In this selection, "peered" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, eyes, beachgoers, long, protectively, inside and deeper stand out and add context to how "peered" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include arms and peered over her and as beachgoers peered on at. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "peered" sits close to words such as abbeys, abundances and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with peered
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Will peered in briefly through the open door. (8 words)
I held a map upside-down and peered at it, baffled. (11 words)
All the while, her dark eyes peered directly ahead at an upward angle. (13 words)
I don’t care what I look like while gaming (if you peered into my living room window while I was in the middle of a session you’d see me spread-eagled on the couch covered in food crumbs), and am more about comfort, which these afford. (48 words)
In the third shot of the social media pack, Jessica was spending time in bed, but in this fairly uninhibited image, she wore a leopard print bra and a casual beige jacket that slid off her pale shoulder as she peered into the lens with a sultry stare. (48 words)
As we look to a new year, Wylie has peered deeper into the 21st century, convinced that soccer will prevail, whether it takes 50 years or even a century for NFL and college football in America and AFL in Australia to become niche sports. (44 words)
Example sentences (20)
Firefighters responded to calls of a substance at Belmore Basin about 12.10pm Thursday, with a fire truck and two hazardous materials trucks arriving on scene, as beachgoers peered on at the phenomenon.
Gone is the marble statue that peered protectively over a shallow pool, the backyard’s centerpiece.
However, when I peered inside and saw one remaining coin that was the most vibrant gold color, my 8-year-old mind couldn’t help but want to entertain myself with it.
I held a map upside-down and peered at it, baffled.
Moments later, the satellite channel switched to footage of Dahdouh entering al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza before giving way to grief as he peered over the body of his dead son.
This time, it was my husband who rolled out of bed, stepped to the window and peered through the blinds into the 3 a.m. darkness.
As we look to a new year, Wylie has peered deeper into the 21st century, convinced that soccer will prevail, whether it takes 50 years or even a century for NFL and college football in America and AFL in Australia to become niche sports.
I don’t care what I look like while gaming (if you peered into my living room window while I was in the middle of a session you’d see me spread-eagled on the couch covered in food crumbs), and am more about comfort, which these afford.
The parents' hearts dropped at the sight of the alleged beast which had a "stocky build and covered in brown hair" and through the "long tangled hair covering its face, two dark intelligent eyes peered out".
The sun has not long peered out above the Ben Ohau Range that frames Lake Ruataniwha, when the first wave arrives.
Will peered in briefly through the open door.
All the while, her dark eyes peered directly ahead at an upward angle.
He stayed on his stomach and peered into that emplacement and called out.
Hubble has peered into the atmospheres of gas giants similar to Jupiter in the past.
Ian Hogg and Byron Adams peered out the windows of their helicopter as it glided over the rocky slopes of the Transantarctic Mountains, dry peaks that rise above vast ice sheets just 600 kilometers from the South Pole.
In the third shot of the social media pack, Jessica was spending time in bed, but in this fairly uninhibited image, she wore a leopard print bra and a casual beige jacket that slid off her pale shoulder as she peered into the lens with a sultry stare.
I peered at the rain outside, I looked at my watch and found myself hovering by the reservations desk.
On Monday’s “The Daily Show,” Trevor Noah peered into the past and consulted a prescient observer who seemed to have the best answer for why Trump has escalated tensions with Iran — Donald Trump himself from 2011.
She peered over her shoulder and flashed a sultry gaze at the camera.
The bandeau looked dangerously close to sliding off as she lifted her arms and peered over her shoulder.
Common combinations with peered
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: