Example Sentences

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To understand biotech regulations, we have to go back in time to 1986, when the cool kids were pegging their jeans, Top Gun was in the theaters, and Lionel Richie and Bananarama dominated the airwaves.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2017

They were pegging diligently at their tasks when the first troop trains pulled in at Disney on September 19th and unloaded the first detachment of future soldiers.

From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by Bachman, William Elmer

Finally they came to a room where several boys were pegging shoes, for this work was still done in the old-fashioned way.

From Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret by Alger, Horatio

They were pegging away industriously the sixth night out when the first S.O.S. reached them.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Bates, Harry

He stalked away angrily with long hurried strides towards the point where Frank and the sailors, all unconscious, were pegging their tents and staking out their encampment with a merry hubbub.

From The White Man's Foot by Allen, Grant