How To Use Peaky In A Sentence
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“Well, he did look a bit peaky at supper,” Adam said.
KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY
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Some advocate using acupuncture or even hypnosis to cure this peaky seasonal ailment.
Companies Cashing In On Allergies
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The smokers, faced with the climb down from, and more importantly back up to, the third floor for a ciggy are now looking a bit peaky.
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I must say that he's looking a bit peaky after the drubbing he's had over his law partnership.
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'peaky' than that generated from internal activity, so more attention needs to be given to system sizing and performance to handle the fluctuating demand for throughput.
The Register
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Luz has discovered her appetite and is looking a little less peaky now, a little less like a starveling sparrow.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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I've had better ideas than going out after drinks, on an empty stomach, when feeling a mite peaky to see a free film.
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There he is on the cover, looking a bit peaky, naturally.
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I think he quite loved that peaky and it served to help in the future when he had a little mishap.
Hair Fashion: Brent & the Peaky « Colleen Anderson
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I've never seen a make up lady on the verge of tears before but my puffed out peaky face was a challenge too far.
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It's as though your mum thinks you look a bit peaky and wants to build you up.
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You're looking a little peaky. Are you OK?
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Look here, I can't bear to see a ship in distress, or a comrade in the doldrums; so I tell you what, young cockbird, raise your crest and don't look so peaky, for I'm going to help you if it's in my power, as most likely it is -- that is, saving as how it ain't a loss by death, which takes us all, and which the good
On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story
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I won't go into the gory details about what's been making me peaky.
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She's been peaky for a couple of days now after working far too hard.
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Brent was probably four or five when this style began and he named it his peaky.
Hair Fashion: Brent & the Peaky « Colleen Anderson
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Her nose was just as sharp though -- 'peaky' I used to call it," nodded the Duchess.
My Lady Caprice
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Then he had the gall to say, ‘Look, if he's very old and is looking a bit peaky don't put a correction in for a couple of days.
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Palfreys, and notwithstanding a tendency in the male part of the family to jeer at him a little as "peaky" and bow-legged, he presently established his position as an accepted and frequent guest.
Brother Jacob
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Their client was lean and tall, with the peaky face of an adolescent who was still growing.
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Some of the lads were beginning to look distinctly peaky.
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Mrs. Raven. –Apart from Mrs. Raven. –Uh, well, what about him? He looks a bit peaky.
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I was feeling a bit peaky tonight, and I crept off to bed early, and dropped off, despite the soundtrack burbling away in the background.
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But she was feeling a little peaky during lunch and I convinced her to let me stay home in the afternoon.
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She was already starting to look peaky and pale.
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She said she'd been in New York all week and I remarked to Cook that she looked a bit peaky... `
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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It would also have turned an already peaky engine into a serious screamer and would have undoubtedly have required shorter gearing to make it work.
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`You look a bit peaky, Boss," said Herbert, studying him in the mirror.
FINAL RESORT
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In case you have to one ` s name peaky cogent in respect of macrocosm that you package believe of prep added to are much final to leave behind burden, consequently hypnosis may continue a keeping to about you.
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They tend to be looking a bit peaky and green about the gills.
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In his rude hovel, with all the sublimities of Nature around him, this child of the wilderness looks up to the summits of the Atlas, "with peaky tops engrailed," and immediately thereafter looks down again to attend to the engrailing of his neat five-franc pieces, which can hardly be told from the genuine.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
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Luz has discovered her appetite and is looking a little less peaky now, a little less like a starveling sparrow.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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I have forgotten whether she said they looked "mangy," or "measly," or "peaky;" but she conveyed her idea in some such graphic phrase.
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
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absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass
