Example Sentences

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Their grave had once had plastic lettering with their names on it, but those had peeled and fallen away into the grass around them, leaving only a ghostly outline from where they used to be.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024

As the dispute intensified, the other deputies gathered around the Nissan, and the deputy who had peeled off from the others minutes earlier drove up in his Mercedes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

He said a small group had peeled away from the march and congregated around the statue after the majority of the crowd had passed by.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021

Black mold climbed the wall in the kitchen where the wallpaper had peeled away.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2021

Most of the paint on the clapboard siding had peeled off long before, and the sagging roof over the porch looked ready to cave in with the next strong wind.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe