onion skin

Example Sentences

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Johnson certainly delights in creating puzzling distractions, but even if his film is as deep as a layer of onion skin, it is immensely engaging.

From Salon • Dec. 22, 2022

What Balanchine actually wanted was for dancers to feel as though there was nothing more than a piece of onion skin between the heel and the floor.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 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

Despite Mrs. Kluck’s complaining, all that’s there is a bit of onion skin and a few gum wrappers.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan