| For Charlotte had come in with a platter, and Nan turned about, peacocking before her unsurprised gaze. |
| One year is a millennium in football, and the previously peacocking Jets — before last season began, Ryan had guaranteed a Super Bowl — were suddenly in need of uplift. |
| And Aunt Hannah in her enraged scorn even undertook a grotesque and mincing imitation of the peacocking aforesaid. |
| The prime minister must have known well in advance that the European seal of approval was coming his way, because he was peacocking for days beforehand. |
| Tourists as nuns, tourists as Turks, tourists as God-knows-what, all preening and peacocking! |
| A chesty, full-bodied man who moves quickly, Dujardin is good at buoyant peacocking, as when he shows off to an appreciative audience at the première of one of Valentin's films. |
