Example sentences for: skins

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

  • Before the early 1700s, when horses appeared on the scene, guile was more important than speed, and hunters stalked the buffalo herd disguised with the skins of wolf and buffalo calves.

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

  • The prosperous city joined the Hanseatic League, trading in rye, wool, and oak timber and providing an entrepôt for skins and furs from eastern Europe.

  • Here is a sampling of improbable movie moments from the summer of 1999: A young man takes a sudden notion to hump an apple pie; a gargantuan crocodile inexplicably migrates from its tropical habitat to set up shop in a frigid Maine lake; a trio of doomed documentarians, being stalked in the woods by a furry witch, never stops filming and videotaping themselves even as they are supposedly jumping out of their skins with terror; the search for an Alzheimer's cure leads to the inadvertent creation of oversized mako sharks with brains so enhanced they are able to apply the principles of hydraulic engineering to their deadly advantage, to say nothing of operating commercial kitchen equipment.

  • The Times of India said that New Delhi need not take this too seriously, because it is "just one of several banana skins the US leader dropped and stepped on in Moscow."


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