Examples of 'pecking order' in a sentence
Meaning of "pecking order"
pecking order - a hierarchy of status or authority within a group
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- The natural hierarchy of social status and dominance occurring in a group of birds.
- The usually informal hierarchy of authority or command, often partial or approximate, as determined by the especially natural propensity for domination of different members of a specific group over each other, such as older brothers and sisters over their younger siblings.
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pecking order
Always the same pecking order in murder.
The pecking order is clearly established.
There is a strict pecking order to this feast.
I am getting to the top of the pecking order.
There is a pecking order that must be respected.
The pack totally has a pecking order.
Get the pecking order right.
And your position in the pecking order.
There is a pecking order in the species.
You did not say there was a pecking order.
There is a pecking order right in frontof your eyes.
I guess he knows the pecking order now.
There is a pecking order within those conferences though.
We have a nice little pecking order at work.
Pecking order is a hierarchical system.
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Patrick had to be top of the pecking order.
I know there is a pecking order for tennis shoes.
There is a whole hierarchy and pecking order.
He was showing the pecking order of our relationship.
She is at the bottom of the pecking order.
The high school pecking order is painfully public.
Probably dropped down the pecking order.
Top of the pecking order meaning.
You know that there is a pecking order.
They maintain a pecking order with dominance and aggression.
That will remind the pecking order.
The pecking order following.
Some boys like being in the pecking order.
The animals set up a pecking order in their flock or herd.
Remember where we are in the pecking order.
There is an established pecking order in this house that needs to be honored.
We are not sure about the pecking order.
There is a natural pecking order as regards the various liquidity sources.
Kye needs to know the pecking order.
Natural pecking order establishment occurs as a normal behaviour for birds.
Sushi has a pecking order too.
He thinks we are his pack and there is a pecking order.
Everyone knows there is a pecking order among prosecutors.
Brown juveniles are at the bottom of the condor pecking order.
There is a clear pecking order here.
Attenborough uses a group of farmyard chickens to demonstrate a pecking order.
We fight until a pecking order is created.
Styles and clothes determine the pecking order.
Down the pecking order.
Apparently this emergency room has a pecking order.
They establish a pecking order early on.
I remain agnostic as to how they choose their pecking order.
Horses understand this pecking order lesson immediately.
Some quickly rose to the top of the pecking order.
There was a kind of social pecking order that was in the pop world.
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