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Example sentences for "peeled"

Lexicographically close words:
peeces; peek; peeked; peeking; peel; peelers; peeling; peelings; peels; peen
  1. Four middle sized potatoes, a thick slice of bread, 3 leeks peeled and cut into slices, a teacup of rice, salt and pepper to taste, 2 qts.

  2. The peaches and apricots are peeled and quartered, the cherries stoned, the bananas and pineapples cut in slices or dice.

  3. Fry 2 onions brown, then add 4 peeled tomatoes, cook till tender, turn into a bowl and chop finely with some parsley and thyme.

  4. Protose, add to this some chopped parsley, 2 peeled tomatoes, crumbs, pepper and salt, and a few drops of A1 sauce.

  5. Thus, wherever a village has encamped, the trunks of these trees strew the ground, their upper limbs and smaller branches peeled of their bark, and looking as white and smooth as if scraped with a knife.

  6. So, all cold and weary as he was, he hastily peeled off his clothes, and blew out the light.

  7. Man after man they peeled off and flung back till they got down to one fellow with his knee on somebody's nose.

  8. Oliver raked the charred embers from under the tangled vines that hid them, while Margaret peeled the bark from a silver-birch for kindling.

  9. From his heels the skin peeled from sliding up and down against the hard leather.

  10. There was a business-like efficiency in the way she peeled potatoes, prepared the venison for the frying-pan, and mixed the biscuit dough.

  11. In a minute or two he had peeled the hides from the others.

  12. She meant the man who had fainted; Charles peeled her off the bodyguard.

  13. He peeled a ten off the roll Grinnel had given him.

  14. Keep your eyes peeled on Cookie," Plimsoll said in a lower voice as the ranch chef went out of the door with his arms piled with provisions.

  15. Meantime, we'll keep our eyes peeled ter-morrer against any order from Hereford.

  16. The skin should be peeled from the body, using the knife whenever necessary.

  17. I know a trapper who caught one in this way by baiting with a white door knob, and the Indians sometimes use a piece of fresh peeled poplar for bait.

  18. When he feels hungry he goes out and gets a piece of wood, takes it into the house, eats the bark, and takes the peeled stick out again.

  19. Open skins which have not been fleshed, should have all of the flesh peeled off after they are stretched and then it will frequently be found necessary to re-stretch them but this is not difficult when using the twine.

  20. Walk beside me," he said to Barbara Harding, "an' keep yer lamps peeled behind.

  21. The centre of life seems merely to retire to a more inward and subtle region, where it perchance nourishes an even brighter flame than before; and the outer body is peeled off as a sort of outworn shell.

  22. The butler had placed a great trayful of them on a low table before her, and as she peeled the long, thorn-armed stems, she arranged the roses in a crystal vase.

  23. The rich, fruit-coloured stuff made her breast and arms look white as peeled almonds.

  24. And she kissed and kissed the little red seal of love on her arm that was white like peeled almonds.

  25. I sat at the window watching the flakes of snow as they peeled from the roofs of the opposite houses and scattered their whitened particles on the pavement beneath.

  26. From the thin films of bark peeled off from the Egyptian reed papyrus which grew along the Nile, a material was formed in latter times answering the purpose much better.

  27. The poles were peeled in early summer, when the Indians set out upon their summer hunt, and were left to season until fall, when they were carried to the winter's camping place, probably fifty miles distant.

  28. The reddish-brown and fibrous bark may be peeled in long strips.

  29. Hemlock bark is peeled in large quantities, but tanneries occasionally mix chestnut oak bark with it to lighten the deep red color imparted to leather when hemlock bark is the sole material employed.

  30. It was then abandoned in the forest after the bark was peeled and hauled away.

  31. Large quantities of hemlock bark are still peeled every summer, but the practice is less destructive than formerly.

  32. The slippery elm bark was peeled from the tree in long strips, the rough outer layers were shaved off, leaving the mucilaginous inner layer.

  33. Large quantities are peeled for medicinal uses, and many trees are thus destroyed.

  34. They immediately exude resin over the whole peeled surface, and the tree quickly dies.

  35. They were windlasses, made of peeled logs, and about eight hundred feet apart.

  36. Hidden from the house by a jutting shoulder of land, Ramsay stood beside the small lake on Pieter Van Hooven's property and peeled off his clothes.

  37. Then roll them lightly on the table to crush the shells, which can then be peeled off easily, leaving the surface smooth and white.

  38. I was at 'action station' with the crew of the foremost gun, and keeping my eye peeled all round, for some of the ships astern had just been popping away at some Hun destroyers they had reported.

  39. Keeping my eye peeled for another piece of peach, I pipes that gob of oil, and so goes and gets rid of it.

  40. Except--" He glanced inquiringly at the little man with the peeled nose.

  41. He had a peeled nose and showed other evidences of having been living in the open air.

  42. Again Pete peeled his sweater off and took up the shot.

  43. Just you keep your eyes peeled and you'll see.

  44. Thereupon Robin prepared another old trick of the greenwood, and got him a light, peeled willow wand which he set in the ground in place of the target.

  45. And he strode down the lists with a slender peeled sapling which he stuck upright in the ground.

  46. This done he inserted the blade under the bark, and peeled it off, as he would have taken the skin from a buffalo.

  47. Tycho is the radial point of the great light-streaks that, as I have already remarked, cause the southern half of the moon to be likened to a peeled orange.

  48. The same simile almost invariably comes to the lips of every person who sees this phenomenon for the first time--"It looks like a peeled orange.

  49. The rough thick outer coat they removed in broad sheets cut into sections; and then they peeled off several coats of an under skin, of tough and pliant nature.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peeled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bald; bare; denuded; exposed; naked; nude; nudist; open; raw; uncovered