Example Sentences

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The cricket brownies are baked; we have been skinning squirrels and marinating them in satay, then decided to unwind by checking out a punk-reggae band in a nearby tent.

From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2017

No one should be any good until they have been skinning their shins for at least ten years.

From Time Magazine Archive

I'm glad to get a chance at one of those men who have been skinning the farmers.

From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by Adams, John Wolcott