onion skin
Example Sentences
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But imperial Russia’s conquest of the region in the 19th century introduced methods of mass production, and artificial dyes supplanted those made with pomegranate husks, onion skin and acacia flowers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
I save a lot of stuff; every bone from a chicken or cow or whatever gets saved in the freezer, also with every end of a carrot or onion skin, it all goes into broth.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2019
"You think you know him and then you peel off another ring of the onion skin and there's something else extraordinary underneath," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2019
No more feeding sheets of paper backed by carbon paper with attached onion skin for copies.
From Salon ● May 4, 2019
Not only did they look and feel like onion skin, they kind of smelled like onion too.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
