The little boy peered around the corner to see if anyone was there.
She peered through the binoculars to get a closer look at the bird perched on the tree branch.
The word "peered" is a verb.An example sentence is:He peered through the dusty window.
Toni stood with her back against the wall so she could not be seen and surreptiously peered around the corner to see what was going on....
looked, studied, gazed, inspected, and scrutinized are all good words that mean the same thing as peered.
Peered.
peered
Peered is a verb. It's the past tense of peer.
The verb in this sentence is "peered." It describes the action of the scary face looking out from the window.
The simple predicate is the verb or the verb phrase in a sentence. In the sentence 'From the window peered a scary face that frightened my little brother' the simple predicate is 'peered'.
I gazed at my friend carefullyI gazed at the broken vase
The word peered has only one syllable. It is pronounced with a single stress point.
gingerly, the cat peered aruond the corner into the study.