paring

How to use paring in a sentence

• This proved to be more difficult than it seemed, and it was soon abandoned for the game of apple-parings.

  Marjorie's Busy Days | Carolyn Wells

• Put the parings and imperfect parts, cut very fine, into the preserving kettle.

  Canned Fruit, Preserves, and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation | Maria Parloa

• They say, and you must have heard it, that the gold he made in that way turned in three days to egg-shells and parings of horn.

  The Long Night | Stanley Weyman

• Parings from that outskirt, what are these compared with Silesia, a horrid gash into the vital parts?

  History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIII. (of XXI.) | Thomas Carlyle

• The women met in sewing and quilting bees and apple-parings; the men came for the evening meal and remained for the country dance.

  Wisconsin in Story and Song; | Various