Definition: 1. A person who is the same age or who has the same social status as you. 2. A person who is of equal standing with another in a group. 3. To look closely or carefully at something, especially when you cannot see it clearly.
Use 'peer' in a sentence:
1. He peered through a chink in the curtains.
2. She gets on well with her peer group.
3. Children are worried about failing in front of their peers.
4. He was made a life peer in 1991.
5. She peered out into the blackness of the night.
6. Bob peered at it. 'Well, well!' he said, 'I haven't seen Spam since the war!' and laughed.
7. It is important for a manager to be able to get the support of his peer group.
8. In regular group confessionals, the worst performers have to explain themselves to their peers.
9. There are quite a number of new methods which can help, such as child-initiated learning, ability-peer tutoring, etc.
10. Naomi admits that it was peer pressure to be "cool" that drove her into having sex early.
11. He peered slowly around the small crowded room.
12. On the flyover near Balintawak station, I peer down at a chessboard of tin roofs.
13. He went to the window and peered out.
14. My theory is that if one is doing it, all do it until the first one has the courage to break off—it's peer pressure.
15. I was peering about me in the gloom.
16. She leaned her bike against the stone wall and stood on tiptoe to peer over it.
17. To his 19th-century peers, Robert Brown was the prince of botany.
18. She kept peering over her shoulder.
19. Naomi admits that it was peer pressure to be 'cool' that drove her into having sex early.
20. I peered around the edge of the shed — there was no sign of anyone else.
21. The government has created eight new peers.
22. He confidently looketh to come back a peer, for he is high in favour with the Lord Protector.
23. You can't peer into your mind and see the fact that you've got free will.
24. Their German peers had a more developed sense of citizenship.
25. The peer was almost surprised into obeying.
26. I lifted the lid of the box and peered in.
27. They could cement the status quo of peer-reviewed research.
28. He watched the Customs official peer into the driver's window.
29. Climbing steep stairs to the choir gallery you peer into a cavernous interior.
30. She exhibited none of the narcissistic and nihilistic tendencies of her peers.
31. He peered closely at the photograph.
32. He peered at the label on the bottle.
33. Lord Swan was made a life peer in 1981.
34. We peered into the shadows.
35. They do not fund peer-reviewed research.
36. I had been peering at a computer print-out that made no sense at all.
37. While some of his peers might quarrel with the title, his credentials remain impressive.
38. They could distort the achievement-based system of peer-review-led research.
39. His engaging personality made him popular with his peers.
40. It was in these studios that young painters found the support and stimulating competition of peers.
41. All this could change the traditional form of the peer-review process, at least for the publication of papers.
42. Teenagers may find it difficult to resist peer pressure.
