Example Sentences

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He stopped the gramophone, which had been pegging away patiently at “The Quaint Old Bird” all the time, and reflected. 

From Mike by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

For days I had been pegging away at a task which refused to get itself accomplished.

From Optimism An Essay by Keller, Helen

The expression is perhaps a little unfortunate; it sounds as if they had been pegging out.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 by Various

However, I at last concluded a book,—if I may so call what never resulted in a volume,—at which, from the first, I had been pegging away.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred