[
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.
- Applicants for the job must have previous experience.
- Some hospital patients experience high levels of anxiety.
- We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
- Despite imperial successes at St. Gotthard (1664), Growardein and Neuhäusel in Hungary ceded to the Ottomans (1664, at Vasvár). 2. The Habsburg Monarchy