Example Sentences

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Historians looking back at UCLA’s 2025 football season will peg the Penn State game as the Bruins’ first victory.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

Instead, it was long on biography and inspirational rhetoric, characteristics that Kasich hopes will peg him as a candidate with a style, message and priorities that distinguish him from his rivals.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2015

If farmers approve the quotas, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson will peg prices at an average 76% of parity, v.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cousins will peg ad rates at a 550,000 base and offer advertisers almost 400,000 more readers as a temporary bonus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus the sensitive artist, for the sake of his ideal, will peg away at the forlorn hope, and, sustained by the spirit, may bring off the thousand-to-one chance.

From Spirit and Music by Hunt, H. Ernest