Pete

//piːt//

"Pete" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Pete came coasting down the hill on his sled.

He calls me Pete.

Richard Krajicek is known as the only player to beat Pete Sampras at Wimbledon between 1993 and 2000. He upset Pistol Pete in straight sets in the quarterfinal en route to winning the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, which came to be the only Grand Slam title in his career.

You OK, Pete? We can do this tomorrow, you know.

"Brad Pete! Is that really you?" "Yeah. And who are you?"

Black Pete is racism.

Pete doesn't like to write notes in books, so he uses bookmarks.

"The elder son of my aunt moved to Austria to the capital city." "Your cousin Pete to Sydney?"

Pete does not like peat.

Pete screwed the piece of paper up and threw it over his shoulder.

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“Where’s Pete?” Pearce asked him. / “Pete?” Shortarse’s mouth stretched and slackened and stretched again. You couldn’t tell if he’d just stubbed his toe, or if he was about to burst into hysterical laughter. / “How many Petes you got working here?” / Shortarse shrugged. […] “Thompson,” Pearce said with his eyes closed. “Thompson,” he said again. He opened his eyes and stared. “I’d like to see Pete Thompson.”

According to the Atlantic, national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month convened a text conversation with top US officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to discuss strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen who had been threatening international shipping in the Red Sea. Waltz, apparently accidentally, added Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the chain.

Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June In a Kenworth pullin' logs. Cab-over Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin' hogs.

Near-synonym: ♳

He was on his way to Tyrone, where he intended to blow a “pete” in a general merchandise store […]

He told us that at one time he could blow a pete at one shot and never fail.

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