Peele

[ peel ]

noun

1. George, 1558?–97?, English dramatist.

Peele

/ piːl /

noun

1. PeeleGeorge?1556?1596MEnglishTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: poet George. ?1556–?96, English dramatist and poet. His works include the pastoral drama The Arraignment of Paris (1584) and the comedy The Old Wives' Tale (1595)

Example Sentences

The trailer is little more than a spooky montage of dark forces and craning necks, and Peele was very cagey about what happens in the movie in the few interviews he’s given.

From Time

The Sunken Place and the Tethered—though central to two timeless cinematic masterpieces—demanded a lot of both Peele and his viewers.

From Time

Peele can’t take just one or two interesting ideas and follow their trail of complexity.

From Time

He’s also scarred, it appears, from a childhood run-in with a murderous chimpanzee, a story Peele hints at in Nope’s prologue and fleshes out later in a terrifying flashback.

From Time

It’s an ingenious premise for the horror subgenre that has been called, most famously by Peele, the social thriller.

From Time

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are returning for the fourth season of their eponymous hit Comedy Central show.

From The Daily Beast

Peele says the sketch is a celebration of unique black names.

From The Daily Beast

In their latest sketch, Key and Peele pit Martin Luther King Jr.

From The Daily Beast

Jordan Peele, known for both his work on MadTV and David Alan Grier's Chocolate News, he is the rumored favorite to play Obama.

From The Daily Beast

Among these may still be seen the rudely cut letters of the names of Byron, Sheridan and Peele.

From Project Gutenberg

He has, notwithstanding, in his comedy parts, more natural lightness and grace than either Marlowe or Peele.

From Project Gutenberg

The ghost of Jack, whom Peele tells us about, is a case of a ghost coming back to befriend his undertaker.

From Project Gutenberg

Nash was about thirty-three years old when he died in 1600; Marlowe was twenty-nine, Peele thirty, Greene thirty-two.

From Project Gutenberg

But even the scandals about Peele are much more shadowy than those about Marlowe and Greene.

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