Sentence examples for a peckish from inspiring English sources

In Doctor Who, it took a peckish Pompeiian a bare two minutes to demand said dormouse.

Photograph: Tristram Kenton An angry question hounds my appreciation of the novel, like a peckish hyena: To what degree can metaphor be used before intruding on realism's capacity to replicate life experience?

Park officials in Vancouver are scrambling to catch a peckish river otter snacking on koi fish from a pond at the city's Dr. Sun Yat-Sen ClaSun Yat-SeneSun Yat-Sen

That's worthy of conversation, not how you tend to get a bit peckish on a fast day.

From Gertie, a perpetually peckish Brontosaurus (a name now formally phased out in favour of Apatosaurus) which starred in a series of black and white silent cartoons in the 1910s right through to today's overwhelming 3D surround-sound CGI creations, audiences assume that what's lumbering in front of them is what dinosaurs were really like.

I'm drunk, a bit peckish and still a nobody.

Physical hunger brings about physiological symptoms, and includes a range between a ted "peckish" to completely ravenous.

David Burke, the executive chef at the Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group and a consultant for Singapore who devises the menus worldwide, confided that he was feeling a little peckish as he surreptitiously swiped a chocolate bon-bon off a dessert plate.

A bit peckish, we stopped for lunch at a restaurant in Canneto, a beachside village on Lipari's eastern shore.

Nobody goes to Heston Blumenthal's restaurant because they are feeling a bit peckish (though it happens that a visit to the Fat Duck will sate your hunger).

Perhaps he did, and we owe him a debt of gratitude for being a bit peckish one spring evening and changing the world.