Synonym: leg, nail, nail down, nog, oarlock, peg down, pegleg, pin, rowlock, stick, thole, tholepin, wooden leg. Similar words: off the peg, scapegoat, landscape gardener. Meaning: [peg] n. 1. a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface 2. small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. 3. informal terms of the leg 4. a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg 5. regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument 6. a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing. v. 1. succeed in obtaining a position 2. pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into 3. fasten or secure with a wooden pin 4. stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations.
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31. That arrogant fellow needs taking down a peg or two.
32. Peg down netting over the top to keep out leaves.
33. I took off my poncho, shook it out, and hung it on a peg by the door.
34. I do the washing and then I hang/peg it out in the garden.
35. He had not a peg to hang on and got dumb for some time.
36. Evans is an arrogant bully who needs taking down a peg or two.
37. The round peg in a square forward line.
38. He hung his hat on a peg.
39. At that time no one was wearing peg trousers.
40. Hang your coat on this peg.
41. No harm in taking Evans down a peg.
42. Serena hung her hat on a peg.
43. A small wooden peg called a spile is knocked into the soft core of the shive.
44. Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two.
45. You can moor just about anywhere the bank will take an iron peg or where a mooring ring is available.
46. He had a polished wooden peg that went tap-tapping every Tuesday night along jubilee Road.
47. It was flecked cloth with zips down the side of the jacket - which looked absolutely horrible - and peg trousers.
48. Peg opens a drawer and gets out a nail file from a manicure set.
49. It was high time some one took his young sister down a peg.
49. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
50. Accordingly managed floating was generally adopted when the adjustable peg was abandoned.
51. They spoke of witnesses being coerced into changing their testimony to peg Simpson as the culprit.
52. She wore a dove-grey Jaeger frock, discreet and asexual(sentencedict.com), but off an expensive peg.
53. Peg sat rigid her basket on her lap, knitting forgotten, keeping in check the smouldering anger inside her.
54. Thought I might pop down to Grafton again this spring - see if our Peg is still alive and kicking.
55. The dollar was therefore the key currency under the adjustable peg system.
56. The Republic of Ireland took its system off the peg.
57. He wore cream linen trousers and a pale yellow shirt that was definitely not off the peg.
58. I clipped into the top peg and swung around in tides of feelings below the bulge.
59. He had his own and not off the peg, either.
60. What Peg did was to take a bed-sheet from home and sneak off with it.