onion skin
Example Sentences
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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
The papers, some made from onion skin, are currently in Philadelphia, where they are being preserved and copied.
From Washington Times • May 21, 2017
The skin on her hands and arms seemed powdery-dry, like tracing paper, onion skin.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
