leathery
Example Sentences
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One of my favorite passages captures Mr. Haskell’s first encounter, in Australia, with a Moreton Bay fig tree, its thick, leathery foliage crowded by figbirds longing for the tree’s fruits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
“I haven’t had to alter my body in that way,” says Strong, who underwent a doctor-supervised “starvation diet” and a regimen of tanning booth visits and biweekly spray tans to match Cohn’s notoriously leathery look.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024
The sun's rays also dry out skin, making it coarse and leathery.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024
Some still have hair, leathery skin and their original clothing.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024
He had broad shoulders and bulging arms, hands like hammers, and the leathery skin of a man who’d been sunburned so many times his naturally creamy complexion had grown tough and brown as rawhide.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
