[
US
/ˈpiˈkɪŋ/
]
NOUN
- capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city
How To Use Peking In A Sentence
- The hole in her shimmery gold nylons from her encounter with the Pekingese didn't add to her self-confidence. KISS AN ANGEL
- President Nixon devalues the dollar, journeys to Peking and Moscow; the future remains unknown.
- He was judged against a flat-coated retriever, a giant schnauzer, an Old English sheepdog, a wire fox terrier, a saluki hound and Pekingese toy dog.
- But when the Peking duck arrives, he at last focuses on the food and watches in admiration as the waiters carve the roasted bird.
- The Pekingese was awarded Reserve Best In Show.
- Burning with fever, Butler hallucinated about China, reliving the ghastly trek from Tientsin and the rape of Peking. Devil Dog
- Among the Oriental dogs produced are the Shih Tzu, the Pekingese, the Chow Chow, the Lhasa Apso, the Spitz, and the Pug.
- One Peking factory has had to scale down its workforce from six hundred to only six.
- We managed to park on the main drag and take some photos whilst congratulating each other on making the Peking to Paris leg of our journey.
- All the fossils that had been called Pithecanthropus—for example, Java and Peking men—were now labeled Homo erectus, as Clark Howell had suggested in an influential 1960 paper. Ancestral Passions
