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    peaking example sentences

    peaking


    1. They looked like sticks peaking out of the diaper – which was miles too big for her


    2. She could have sworn she saw a yellow eye peaking through the tiny slit where the curtains met in the middle


    3. I sat myself on a small brick fence around the garden, and stared at the moss which was peaking through the cracks in the concrete


    4. “Yeah,” he said while peaking out the back window


    5. To assure your anonymity you hide near 1 of the large gaseous outer planets, just barely peaking around it so you can see what’s going on


    6. The boy’s testosterone levels were peaking without consciously knowing it


    7. Pete was peaking away at the computer keyboard as the officer


    8. debt as interest rates were peaking which may have raised the cost of capital


    9. Unfortunately, that consumption trend is far from peaking


    10. His enthusiasm was peaking and I had a feeling selling the shirt was going to be difficult for Louie because he seemed to be growing attached to it

    11. transactions peaking at $27


    12. During their travels, they would be up close and personal with the Himalayan mountain range and even Mount Everest! Peaking above the other mountains, Mount Everest stood like a glistening silver triangle to their left


    13. She crept up close to the opening and saw Nora’s familiar old face peaking in


    14. “Grays? Not quite pet, not quite wild?” Nuluv asked peaking with excitement, eagerly anticipating the opening of the mystery package


    15. The giant wolf accompanying the two women paced uneasily around them, its protective instincts peaking hyperactively


    16. Why was it that when we viewed our memories it was always from an outside angle? As if you were peaking over the edge of a high wall into the garden of your own past


    17. Both her mom and dad walked in, with Courtney peaking in


    18. As they drove off in search of maple syrup shortly before noon, Joseph pointed excitedly to the right, “I think it’s peaking on that hill


    19. “I think it’s peaking over there, too!” she replied


    20. “There’s a lot of peaking going on around here,” he laughed

    21. “I heard it’s peaking there,” she smiled


    22. We had crossed the Litian River without incident in the night, but now the first rays of sunlight were peaking into the morning sky


    23. The orderly old wilderness would split for a huge slab of rock down whose face tumbled a falls, and here, in the light, on the sun-bleached rock, with the breaking water in his ears and the ozone of peaking vegetation in his nose, he was granted what he’d hoped for those first days after his arrival: he was no one, with no past and no future, nothing beyond the now and now and now of the white water surging into the clear


    24. She could see a few of what were presumably the gray tops of the very tall, elaborate headstones that belonged to the once wealthy and prominent peaking above the surface of the snow, but that was it


    25. The Dow is now in its tenth year of consolidation after peaking in 1999; since that time the index has moved sideways with furious moves to both the upside and downside


    26. methadone withdrawal typically begins 36–72 h after last use, peaking in 4–7


    27. 1), peaking at the forward rate between 2 and 3 years


    28. The ex ante real estate risk premium over the 10-year Treasury averaged 4% over 42 years, peaking at 8% in 1980 and troughing at 2% in 1984 and then again at 2


    29. Assets allocated to HFs grew quickly in the 2000s, peaking above $2 trillion in early 2008 and then falling by nearly half over a year of losses and redemptions, before rebounding again


    30. Dispersion among forecasters in inflation surveys is a third candidate; it too has varied with inflation level, peaking in the 1970s

    31. ) The global market cap rose steadily from $30 trillion at end-2003, crossing $50 trillion at end-2006, and peaking at $62 trillion in October 2007


    32. Notice that as natural gas prices were peaking (see Figure 12


    33. It is ironic that when retail natural gas demand is peaking in the December to February time frame, futures prices often are near yearly lows


    34. From 1954 to 1963, much of America’s surplus grain was exported to poor countries under the USAID program, peaking at 17 million metric tons in the 1965-1966 growing season


    35. First, when used as a fin for progression; Second, when used as a mace in battle; Third, in sweeping; Fourth, in lobtailing; Fifth, in peaking flukes


    36. Excepting the sublime BREACH—somewhere else to be described—this peaking of the whale's flukes is perhaps the grandest sight to be seen in all animated nature


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