"peep out" is a phrase that is commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is visible just barely, or visible only partially. For example, "She saw the sun peep out from behind the clouds."
I have to peep out when I go to the hall to throw out my trash.
Beady little eyes peep out from behind round, metal-framed glasses.
Model fighter planes rest on plinths, aircraft carriers serve as bird-tables and machine guns peep out from shrubs.
Outdoors, self-sown seedlings are beginning to peep out in beds and borders, but the greenhouse is heaving with life.
John Clare feels no such awkwardness, only delight: "I love to peep out on a summer's morn / Just as the scouting rabbit seeks her shed".
Glimpses of the more functional former hotel occasionally peep out through the cracks (metaphorically speaking – the paintwork was immaculate), but overall, the physical makeover seems a resounding success.
Sunday is a rainy, windy, seagull-heckling, day – but the Princess Pavilion has a full house as we peep out from backstage, pasty-faced with nerves.
THE reconstruction of the 1870 Central Park Precinct building, on 86th Street, is under way, and only the decoratively tiled dormers peep out over a plywood fence.
Even if the sun does begin to peep out from behind the clouds, our temperatures are positively feeble compared with the rest of the world.
Traditionally, the English only peep out from their caves of national self-disgust to trumpet their alleged good sense of humour, their subtlety with irony, their readiness for laughter.
Like a murder of tiny space crows, the Sprite satellites will peep out their location and – for $300, your initials – as they circle the planet.
