Example Sentences

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TV’s teenage trauma: Anne Beatts on ‘Square Pegs’

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2021

Pegs driven into holes in the logs appear to have been used for hanging coats as well as boards for a makeshift shelf.

From Washington Times • May 24, 2015

Pegs, on her date, seems almost proud of having started out as a secretary with no college degree, or at least not hung up on it.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2015

So as our Pegs learns the ropes of becoming a manager, she also is learning how to be The Boss.

From Time • Apr. 15, 2013

Mostly, she looked for ways to make extra money and hassled him and Pegs.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez