leatherlike
Example Sentences
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“I don’t think this is avant-garde,” pronounced Michael as he surveyed Josh C.’s outfit of black shorts, high-necked white blouse and odd leatherlike fabric covering the model’s shoulder blades.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2011
Then, emptying the cups, and chewing up the tough, leatherlike maize cakes, the hunters slip quietly out of camp, and set their faces for the Cerro.
From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne
In addition to the big outer pockets, it had inner game pockets lined with a leatherlike plastic.
From The Egyptian Cat Mystery by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
Her hands beggared description; their covering resembled skin not at all, but a dark-blue substance, leatherlike, bruised, ingrained, indigo-hued.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van
Those hard blue eyes were brimming with tears; the leatherlike skin was working curiously about the mouth.
From The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Connor, Ralph
