(v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
Example Sentences:
(1) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(2) This study presents results from in vitro and in vivo experiments in rodents by the use of a PEEK-hollow fiber.
(3) To check the Hub while in an app, you use your thumb to swipe the screen from left to right, and can "peek" at the Hub's inbox.
(4) Ewen takes a peek at the Republican challenger's strategy: He will list damning statistics showing the extent to which Americans have become dependent on the federal government, from food stamps to unemployment benefits.
(5) Sure, it's bad to peek at your data but data peeking alone probably isn't going to produce nine different false positives.
(6) Oscar-winner Michael Moore dives right into hostile territory with his daring and hilarious one-man show, deep in the heart of TrumpLand in the weeks before the 2016 election.” The news broke on Twitter with Moore sharing the following tweet on Monday: Michael Moore (@MMFlint) Hey NYC- Who wants a peek @ what I've been up 2?
(7) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
(8) Journalists who have never even peeked into the IPCC report are now outraged that one wrong number appears on page 493 of Volume 2.
(9) When Dunham’s own memoir, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” , was published this autumn, it was Gould who defended her (on Salon.com ) from rabid right-wing critics who characterised Dunham as a child molester for confessing to peeking at her sister’s vagina when she was seven.
(10) A peek at the source code of the now-blank site contains a hint of a future acquisition, with an empty space labelled “put announce for mtgox acq here”.
(11) Shaltai-Boltai and the missing jigsaw pieces Alexander said he was in Asia at the time, but travelled to Estonia within the past week, having first paid a trusted contact to peek into Interpol’s systems and check Russia had not yet put him on the wanted list.
(12) What in fact happened, Edward Jr said in the same letter, was that “as I sat on my bed, tears of rage flowing, remembering my childhood my anger kept building and building, and I went to my car, got the 9mm, and walked to his room, peeked in, and he was asleep.
(13) But a peek behind its algorithmic curtains suggests what it does know might be wrong.
(14) We’ll be giving you a peek behind the curtain of what makes the news and take stock of what’s gone on locally, nationally and globally.
(15) Have a peek will you … 7.46pm GMT I've not heard anything more on the Arsenal deal for Malaga's Nacho Monreal, but I presume numbers are being tapped into computers, sweaty suits are running around and papers are being shuffled vigorously.
(16) Traditionally Apple releases a sneak peek into its new software for both its Mac computers and its iPhone and iPad at WWDC each year.
(17) Still, there are pockets of cuteness to be found: tiny yuru-kyara charms dangling off backpacks or peeking from posters or construction barriers in the form of baby ducks.
(18) You can see evidence of these new lands on the Delta's fringes; mile upon mile of agri-business-owned fields peeking out behind the advertising billboards of the Cairo-Alexandria desert road.
(19) Julian Savulescu , professor of practical ethics at Oxford University, said: "Venter is creaking open the most profound door in humanity's history, potentially peeking into its destiny.
(20) Game of Throne fans are counting the days until the start of series four and to help the wait go faster, we've got a 15-minute sneak peek.
Pique
Definition:
(n.) A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
(n.) The jigger. See Jigger.
(n.) A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation.
(n.) Keenly felt desire; a longing.
(n.) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
(v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.
(v. t.) To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.
(v. t.) To pride or value; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To cause annoyance or irritation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Davenport, possibly in a fit of pique at having been knocked out, said playing Mauresmo was like 'playing a guy'.
(2) I believe that it is too valuable to be destroyed in a fit of resentment, pique or disillusion.
(3) Photograph: Redferns Maurice made his Broadway debut in 1875 in Pique.
(4) For real will-this-do illustrating, look no further than conjoined twins Tip and Tap , although they admittedly boast a certain erstaz charm not seen post- Pique (the much-maligned Goleo VI and Pille the Erudite Ball apart).
(5) This week another couple of reader missives piqued our attention.
(6) 87 min: With the ball pinging around the Inter box, Pique takes the ball around Cesar and tries to shoot goalwards, only for a defender to hack clear.
(7) In any case, Caine’s interest was piqued by more mundane matters: it was the first time he had been asked to play a conductor.
(8) He turned down a contract with Nottingham Forest because his ambition was piqued by the more exciting opportunities that Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, could offer.
(9) 1998 Gaddafi expels 30,000 Palestinians from Libya in pique over Israel-PLO peace negotiations.
(10) 79 min: Birsa is booked for kicking the ball away in a fit of pique at a handball decision that went against him.
(11) 83 min: Ah, here's what happened: Clerc had come on for Reveillere, who was losing the place in a fit of pique.
(12) 54 min In a daft way Spain are lucky to just have conceded a goal, because both Casillas and Pique could have given away a penalty and been sent off during that attack.
(14) His dainty close control was beautiful and took him past both Pique and Puyol; then, from 10 yards, he deliberately poked the ball wide of Casillas with his right foot, and it came flush off the post.
(15) Barr believed that had piqued the interest of the "FBI, the Director of National Intelligence, and the US military".
(16) and quickly realise this won't pique anyone's interest enough for them to take time out of their superfast scrolling to reply.
(18) At the very end, his pique at a peak, Prince declared that language was so confining that 'I might just stop talking again and not do interviews'.
(19) He is piqued by their European ban , and with good reason: what is Wesley Sneijder without the Champions League, what is the Champions League without Wesley Sneijder?
(20) The symbolist writer Merezhkovsky, piqued, had characterised all futurists as boors.