Use "peppercorn" in a sentence

1. “At first he had paid a peppercorn rent for it

2. over under a peppercorn tree, turned the car so he could see the road

3. And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror