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

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

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

He sighed and worked his jaws on the leatherlike substance.

From The Best Made Plans by Dongen, H. R. van

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)