pecking order|peckingorder in English

hierarchy within a social structure in which aggressiveness determines domination and control

Use "pecking order|peckingorder" in a sentence

1. 15 But normally the pecking order works out by itself.

2. Bullpen composition Wilson was already due to move up the Bullpen's pecking order

3. The original use of pecking order referred to the expression of dominance in chickens.

4. To clamber up the pecking order, some people slave away nights and weekends at the office.

5. Removing hens or roosters from a flock causes a temporary disruption to this social order until a new pecking order is established.

6. 26 Hens feed by pecking.

7. Chickadees establish a dominance hierarchy, or “pecking order,” by which each bird is known to the other according to rank

8. Bantams mixed with standard-sized breeds must fight for their place in the pecking order from the brooder box

9. Geese were pecking around for food.

10. The hens were pecking the grain.

11. The little prisoner was pecking inside his shell .

12. Individual Chickens in a flock will dominate others, establishing a ‘pecking order’, with dominant individuals having priority for access to food and nesting locations.

13. Beneath it(Sentencedict.com), two geese were pecking at some grain.

14. For a certain generation, Commie is one of the worst things you could level at someone, perhaps just behind Nazi in the political insult pecking order

15. Great tits are the biggest and Bolshiest members of their family, so they’re higher in the pecking order than other tits at our garden bird feeders

16. 10 The woodpecker's long beak is specially designed for pecking.

17. [Blue suns, green whirlwinds,] [birdbeaks of light pecking open] [pomegranate stars.]

18. Feather pecking can be an enormous problem in all husbandry systems.

19. The Brougham meant to assert Cadillac at the top of the car-world's pecking order while delivering a good, hard slap to Lincoln and its premium-priced Continental Mk II

20. This rather unusual pecking instinct seems to ensure constant gratification for the male.

21. A raven had landed on the fish and was pecking out its eye.

22. So they seem to be beautifully suited to pecking grain in one environment.

23. Four of them parody the fire brigade, pecking and pulling a piece of bread.

24. Middleschoolers, their teachers tell me, are as endearing as chicks just pecking out of their shells.

25. It lives in the dirt, pecking insects out of the muck, consoling itself with its great beauty.