Example sentences for: skins

How can you use “skins” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Martha Stewart, on using the proper blender setting for pulverizing 'those f**king tomato skins.

  • The huge freestanding red cedar poles erected in front of their houses are essentially a 19th-century phenomenon, dependent, for their intricate design, on the chisels, steel axes, curved knives, and other metal tools bartered from Europeans for the skins of sea otters.

  • Actually, he rarely gives them any weight: The bad jokes don't fall flat so much as blow away like onion skins.

  • Incidentally, I seem to recall reading somewhere that skins as slang for `dollars' dates from frontier days when trappers used animal skins as currency, and is therefore much older than early 20th-century Harlem.

  • This heading has layers of meaning that can be peeled off like the skins of an onion.


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