Sentence examples for a peppercorn from inspiring English sources

It was given 999 years at a peppercorn rent.

France's lease, at a peppercorn rent, expires in 2035.

"Hold a peppercorn and you have world history in your hand," says Alcott.

NN benefits from a peppercorn (nominal) rent for the building, part of Northampton's new cultural quarter.

This one watches, a peppercorn eye framed by a white stripe for quick seeing.

The Crossness Engines Trust now holds them on a peppercorn lease from Thames Water.

But on his epic scale, this effort would be like seasoning a tray of paella with a peppercorn.

According to old English common law, the smallest unit of payment that could appear in a contract was a peppercorn.

From a selection of sauces, a Bordelaise with crisp bone marrow fritters was terrific, but a peppercorn sauce was insipid.

The ideal dessert, after such heavy fare, is the ripe poached pear with a touch of mascarpone in a peppercorn-scented cold sour cherry and mango soup.

One of the best sausages I've eaten was in Italy, sliced from a peppercorn-studded, rose-pink pork mortadella that weighed two hundred and seventy-one pounds and was nearly five feet long and eighteen inches wide.