Example Sentences

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We were skinning up a ski area in southern Vermont, but the chairlifts are long gone.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2022

While we were skinning the coon, Papa asked me when I was going to start training my dogs.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

On the riverbank two men were skinning a boar strung from a tree.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Men, cheerfully excited men now, were bringing in pigeons by armfuls, and other men were skinning them.

From The Runaway Skyscraper by Leinster, Murray

From the distance he distinguished, hanging on cross-sticks near the fire, oxen which the butchers were skinning.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk