Sentence examples for peg down from inspiring English sources
"peg down" can be used in written English
It means to securely fasten something in place. For example, "The tent came with plastic pegs which we used to peg down the corners".
verb
To fasten something to the ground using pegs.
Ditto for the next design peg down, the Wii-based puzzle generator in Steven Spielberg's Boom Blox.
She spoke with confidence, just a peg down from arrogance, which only big-city intellectuals could get away with, even if they were only 12.
I think it was at this point – after the camels and the VDD, the Eurovision clubs and the world's oldest ski, and seeing a 10m-high sculpture of a clothes peg down on the riverfront – that I began to toy with the idea that I had inadvertently wandered into a David Lynch movie, with Olsson as the puppet-master figure.
We were the barest approximation of an audience, but he was showing off for us already: bending notes, touching the strings lightly to produce harmonics, twisting a tuning peg down and then up again to make the guitar burp like a baby.
Like you could use it as a hammer to peg down your tripod.
We have yet to peg down exactly when Yosemite will be available, but users should probably begin getting their machines ready for the update process.
Rio! My colleague Jonathan Watts will not be pegged down to one lone location.
The TV satellite dish is then hoisted and aligned, and windbreaks and hammocks pegged down and strung out.
The sidewalls were pegged down to keep people from slipping into the show under them and completely blocked off by the rows of wooden bleachers.
Tagg says there is interest in freestanding barriers which, filled with soil or water and pegged down, can protect a group of homes.
That's what one has to recover, writing about the past, I suppose — its presentness, not pegged down by the heavy inevitability of history and hindsight.
