skins

Example Sentences

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Wilson got us to look at ourselves by looking far beyond ourselves in other cultures and other universes and under our own skins.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

One prominent enthusiast had 40,000 skins, almost certainly preserved with arsenic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

To be taken seriously, a birdman needed a large collection of taxidermied birds, skins and eggs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

The barrels -- bound tightly with rope, their fabric skins stiffened and darkened with lacquer -- inevitably recall the Gulf's vast hydrocarbon wealth.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

He did not take any interest in the discarded skins of famous goblin heroes and actors, despite all of the interesting dioramas.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin