leather

Example Sentences

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Piller juxtaposes opals, garnets and pearls with less conventional materials such as tile fragments, snakeskin, bits of lava from a trip to Iceland, and bullet casings, all bound together with strips of leather or vinyl.

From Los Angeles Times

Stewing a piece of meat until it transforms from leather into something tender and succulent.

From Salon

Students stand in a circle as an instructor, Rusty Trzpuc, who wears a leather belt imprinted with the word “sold” on the back, claps out a metronomic beat.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a practice known as turkey droving, thousands of birds, some wearing tiny leather boots, were herded through fields and along rough roads on a three-month journey.

From BBC

The black leather boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, were discovered by volunteers cleaning up rock pools on Ogmore By Sea Beach in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.

From BBC