Example Sentences

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Music from the James Bond films and a night of prog rock classics will pepper this year's BBC Proms, alongside the usual programme of orchestras, operas and soloists.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

This premier grinder will pepper your steak in seven cranks instead of 70.

From The Verge • May 15, 2021

But insurers are worried that perplexed consumers will pepper them with tax questions they’re not qualified to answer.

From Washington Times • Jan. 12, 2015

We’ll need nitrogen, too, and some magic from the biochemists, who will pepper the moon’s old, gray rocks with blue-green algae that can exhale oxygen.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2014

He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John