How to Use peer in a Sentence

peer

1 of 2 noun

• He was respected and admired by his peers.
• To be picked by my peers to be in the top five is great.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2020
• The study is in preprint and has not been peer-reviewed.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2021
• The study is a preprint and has not yet been peer-reviewed.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
• Today's chart shows the Russell vs. its peers over the past month.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 28 May 2020
• Among my peers, this is the big shift from World Cups prior.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 15 June 2018
• Get down on your hands and knees and peer inside the stand to double-check.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 10 Nov. 2021
• Some 80 percent of the fund’s peer group has done better over the past year.
  — Landon Thomas Jr., New York Times, 5 July 2017
• The study has been published as a pre-print and has yet to be peer-reviewed.
  — Antony Sguazzin, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2022
• Companies that don’t score at the very top of their peer group don’t make the cut.
  — Fiza Pirani, ajc, 23 May 2018
• So many of his peers and sports hall of fame people stepped up.
  — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 9 Sep. 2019
• The results of the study have not yet been peer reviewed or published.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 26 June 2022
• Scott says his teachers and peers treat him the same as anyone else.
  — Nicole Ludden, azcentral, 23 Mar. 2020
• The sandwich feels a bit more processed than its peers.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• Its bad-loan ratio is one of the highest among its peers.
  — Anto Antony, Bloomberg.com, 19 June 2018
• Worse, many of his peers went on to a life of street crime, skipping school and joining gangs.
  — Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
• In the past year smallsats have been launched that can use radar to peer through clouds or darkness.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• The deer stands at the edge of a house and peers in at the shoulder mount—a nice buck by any hunter’s standards—through an open door.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 16 Nov. 2023
• People with such skills prefer to work in cities with their peers.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
• He's called a peer counselor because, well, he's been there, done that.
  — CBS News, 6 June 2021
• Don't need to be any different around me or their peers.
  — Dana Scott, azcentral, 4 June 2020
• Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night.
  — Houston Chronicle, 12 Sep. 2019
• They'll also be paired with a coach and a peer mentor for one-on-one support.
  — Jennifer Walter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2018
• Mikey is likeable young man who enjoys life, and gets along well with adults and peers alike.
  — Boys & Girls Aid / Community Content Partner, OregonLive.com, 29 Dec. 2017
• His peer Frank Sinatra called him the greatest popular singer in the world.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 21 July 2023
• Mayo now works two part-time jobs for mental health and peer support groups.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 26 May 2021
• Students at these schools work at least one grade level ahead of their peers.
  — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• This is my own experience and that by some of my peers.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 13 Apr. 2018
• So the idea of a woman serving as a police officer is novel to the village and Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) is routinely dismissed by her peers.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2024
• For example, Fernanda is the type of scholar who will help a peer prepare for a Socratic seminar in English class and even attend that Socratic with her as support.
  — Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024

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peer

2 of 2 verb

• With the filters out, peer into the space where the fan runs.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 13 June 2022
• Their goal is to peer back to the beginnings of the universe.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2022
• The study passed muster with the experts who peer-reviewed it.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Red, just tall enough to peer over the table, kept a close watch on all.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• My feet, serene and chill, peer up at the rest of me, which is roiling with chaos.
  — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 29 June 2020
• The boy then loaded a rifle and peered through its scope.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 11 June 2019
• Hailee tried to peer over the sea of blue scrubs to catch the first glimpse of her little sister.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2022
• Get low, on your hands and knees if there’s not much cover, and peer over.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 8 Dec. 2020
• Strief peered over the fence from the upper practice fields and made sure to hammer me the next day.
  — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Try not to give in to peer pressure to make a purchase that doesn't fit your needs.
  — oregonlive, 13 June 2020
• Also in the mix are the artist’s own eyes, which peer at the viewer from a corner of the collage.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2021
• The alternative was to lose them to peer schools that would.
  — Ron Lieber, Town & Country, 23 Feb. 2021
• The two of us peered up at the rotting floor beneath my bathroom.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2018
• Dozens of tiny yellowish lights, mark the sides of the road: deer peering out at you.
  — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2017
• Two freshman boys, awkward fawns, peered, eyes wide and furtive, at the seniors, the coach, the girls.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
• The villa's façade glows cream and gold in the evening sun, and white stucco statues peer down.
  — Ros Belford, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2019
• The little girl was peering through the side window, Teri said.
  — jsonline.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• Her two children, Maple and Ted, peer over her shoulder from the back seat.
  — jsonline.com, 3 June 2021
• One of the men inside the park stops to peer through the fence at them; Maggie Bowen, the Aunt Skatie leader, is used to this.
  — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• Children peer in through the cracks in the walls—high time to seal them before winter sets in.
  — Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• Up first: Its bulging, glassy eyes peer eerily at the camera.
  — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2022
• The camera was even able to peer through portholes into some of the cabins.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• Yes, the Webb telescope is 1 million miles from Earth, and able to peer back 13.5 billion years to the dawn of the universe.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
• Blanc, the lawmaker, saw his face peering over his fingers pressed against the back of the bench.
  — Daniel González, azcentral, 22 June 2018
• The act of scrolling past the same dumb ad to peer at the same bad news on the same glass screen on the same social network: This is the stuck future.
  — Brian Merchant, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2022
• Onlookers have come to take photos or peer through the fence.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Want something to make your neighbors peer over the fence with amazement?
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Apr. 2021
• His eyes, blank and fierce, peered from under thick folds of heavy, purpled skin.
  — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• Miss Manners can only hope that your hosts have the good manners not to peer into your soup plate and comment on the contents.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• The policymakers will also try to peer into the future and forecast the likely path of growth, employment, inflation and their own interest rates.
  — Christopher Rugaber, ajc, 22 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024