Example Sentences

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The company has skinned back plans for Google Fiber, which delivers rapid Internet service in 10 metro areas.

From Reuters • Jun. 27, 2017

The young Athabascan artist has skinned thousands of fish.

From Washington Times • Jan. 3, 2015

The storm has skinned layers of film from city life, and in this little corner of New York, you could follow Midnight’s trot backward through decades.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2012

The foot slides on a reef, polished and black as obsidian, where the wind has skinned an exposed corner of road down to the dirt ice of early winter.

From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard

See how the iron has skinned my leg and taken off the fur, and I am in such pain.

From Wood Magic A Fable by Jefferies, Richard