leather
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With her motorcycle, leather jacket and buzz cut, Judith looks, Katy observes, “more like a jacked, angry Sinéad O’Connor than a detective.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
There are hot tubs and cold tubs and a players-only sauna, while every locker is outfitted with a leather zero gravity chair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
More remarkably, he produced a leather diary from 2019, in which he had noted that Wright had stopped by to drop off an old trailer.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Pearl diving often relied on the barest necessities: a noseclip, leather finger covers and a basket to gather oysters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The first thing I did when we got home was to tie a leather rope across the room under the ceiling.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri marked her return to Fendi at Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday, presenting a sensual and lightweight collection featuring "remodelled" furs and leathers crafted like lace.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
A: Bottega Veneta uses incredible leathers, and I’ve done three or four videos on their beautiful products.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
Level up with more involved recipes like flavored jerkies or fruit leathers.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023
Dressed in leathers, veteran bikers and RUBs — rich urban bikers — found easy solidarity, admiring one another’s rides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2023
It was mostly men in black leathers, with silver studs and black glossy orbs - helmets - on their head or under their arm.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
And while a leathered look is great for handbags, it’s not so great for faces.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2021
One tall, young and beautiful, one short and a little bit older, leathered up and toughened up.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
His: leathered and intimidating, as if he were staring down a predator he intends to harpoon.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 1, 2019
On first sight, Ms. Kidman looks close to unrecognizable, her face carefully mottled and leathered, and her eyes ringed in a red hue you could call Permanent Hangover.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
The woman laughed, shook out her hair and waved a leathered hand in the air.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
We know he practised at Flushing Meadows on Tuesday after his opening win – seemingly testing out his playing arm by leathering some forehands - and also hit on Wednesday morning.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
Angela Merkel takes a particularly personal beating, with the front page of Libero featuring a picture of Mario Balotelli leathering a ball featuring the superimposed face of the German chancellor.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2012
An eye-catching rally ensues on the first of those match points, with both men leathering groundstokes from the baseline and feathering drop shots at the net.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2010
Oh, the great big Irishman, The rattling, battling Irishman— The stamping, ramping, swaggering, staggering, leathering swash of an Irishman!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
England is my dwellin’ place—leastwise, when I arn’t off France and Spain, or in the ’Terranium leathering the French.
From The Powder Monkey by Ambrose Dudley
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