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

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

At the same time, we are now pulling back the onion skin and looking at him a little bit harder, especially with the digital issue.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2010

Black leather with gold-edged pages, each one thin as a bit of onion skin.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez