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34 examples of Pecking in a sentence

So they're very, very good at pecking for grain, and they're not much good at doing anything else.
So they seem to be beautifully suited to pecking grain in one environment.
Every school was a big top circus tent, and the pecking order went from acrobats to lion tamers, from clowns to carnies, all of these miles ahead of who we were.
[Blue suns, green whirlwinds,] [birdbeaks of light pecking open] [pomegranate stars.]
And you see, the choices that we make as an individual, but the choices that we make in every single job that we have, no matter how high or low you are in the pecking order, has an impact on all of these systems.
And I've never really felt very motivated by pecking orders or by superchickens or by superstars.
Americans have become accustomed to their place at the top of every pecking order.
If you really believe there is a sincere, honestly felt, personal connection that would be lasting and meaningful, one of you may need to move, and it shouldn't always be the person who's lower in the company pecking order.
But upon arrival, he finds himself near the bottom of the pecking order.
When the bad guy, all of the sudden, becomes a homicidal maniac solely because a bunch of crows start pecking him, then I have a problem spending $9.00 for a ticket!
However strange things begin to happen, Jennifer starts having nightmares about Ravens pecking at her & she starts to feel very ill.
there may have been a buzzard pecking at his eyes, i'm not sure right now. in the movie mary spends her life struggling to get her life together, unfortunately every time she gains any footing she falls and loses everything.
There is a pecking order about comedians and comedy teams.
There's a body hanging from a tree, there are chickens pecking at a body, there is an Italian looking guy buried and about to get a sickle through his head.
Georgia Splits the KremlinMOSCOW – Dmitry Medvedev inherited the post of President of the Russian Federation from Vladimir Putin, and while Putin moved down the pecking order to become Prime Minister, speculation has abounded from the start of Medvedev’s presidency about an eventual split between Russia’s two highest leaders.
Is the international scholarly pecking order about to be overturned?
If the presidency goes to a politician who lacks fame and charisma, its place will forever be low down in the international pecking order.
Until recently, not even a kiss could appear in a Bollywood movie; instead, as the man and woman tilted their heads toward each other, the camera would pan to two birds pecking or two flowers brushing together.
The sofware offers nine visualizations that reflect behavior and trends over time, including quality time (a pie chart of whom you spend time with online and offline), pecking order (illustrated with chickens!), blow-off scorecard (relationship asymmetry), and temperature gauge.
But it is safe to assume, however, that as long as the Roma are mired at the bottom of Europe’s socio-economic pecking order, it is only a matter of time before racist attacks on them begin again.
But their xenophobia is directed against poor Mexican immigrants, blacks, or Middle Eastern refugees, who are perceived as freeloaders depriving honest (read white) Americans of their rightful place in the social pecking order.
The money for recapitalizing distressed banks would now come primarily from creditors, not European taxpayers, with a pecking order to specify which lenders would be repaid first.
The idea of exempting banks’ secured debt from the pecking order for repayment is extremely problematic as well.
Today, according to Europe’s self-determined pecking order, there are the French and British intelligence and security services, and then there are the rest.
Back then, Thai schoolchildren sang martial songs each morning, and Thais knew their place in the rigidly elitist pecking order, which was reinforced by socialization and indoctrination in classrooms and living rooms, where only state-controlled media could enter.
And how can Europe move ahead with such vivid pecking orders?
Indeed, where individual countries will end up in ten years is highly uncertain, and the current pecking order within the European economy could change quickly.
Unsurprisingly, the gender balance within each occupation changes as one goes down the pecking order, with women concentrated in the lower-status, worst-paid positions.
America, the incumbent superpower, may well cling to its position at the top of the global pecking order.
This was unthinkable at the time: mathematical economists and economic theorists ruled the roost, and development economics was well down the pecking order of respectable fields.