[
UK
/pˈɛɹi/
]
NOUN
- (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done
- a beautiful and graceful girl
How To Use peri In A Sentence
- When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
- If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
- The extended period of damage was probably brought on by the cool/wet growing conditions.
- Inhuman hours, back-stabbing competition, abuse by superiors; it's all familiar now.
- I can say with certainty that a lot of arms shipments have arrived during this peace period.
- The formation of coral terraces is interpreted as the product of approximately uniform long-term uplift superimposed on eustatic changes in sea level.
- Although I have finally been given a small piece of work to do (nothing crucial, generous deadline), I'm finding it hard to apply myself after such a long period of enforced inactivity.
- Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person. Horace
- I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others. What to Do?
- Then, as they approached the docks, the diggers stared in awe at the remains of the once-mighty Imperial Japanese Navy.