onion skin
Example Sentences
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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
No more feeding sheets of paper backed by carbon paper with attached onion skin for copies.
From Salon • May 4, 2019
Black leather with gold-edged pages, each one thin as a bit of onion skin.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
