leather
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At Monday's brief hearing, the pair each wore black leather jackets with jeans and stood quietly holding hands behind their lawyers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
"It is not little kitchens and pots boiling away, mimsy little things being placed on plates. He is cooking with fire... he stands there in his leather apron and it's roaring like fireworks," Coren said.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Even from a distance he’d be easy to recognize, because he always wears the same thing: a pair of jeans with a worn brown belt and leather hiking boots.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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
It hosts a collection of artefacts and memorabilia such as Dunlop's restored and original motorcycles, rare photographs, racing leathers, trophies and personal items that mark Joey's remarkable career.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
It would call attention on anyone but even more so on May, who pairs it with Rick Owens shoulders, pink leathers, fur hats and full camo fits.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024
A: Bottega Veneta uses incredible leathers, and I’ve done three or four videos on their beautiful products.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
During Christmas break, Charlie arrived in our driveway clad in a full set of blue and red racing leathers.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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
He dragged his studs over the ball to take it away from Jake Cooper, turned in one smooth movement and leathered it into the roof of the net.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2021
His: leathered and intimidating, as if he were staring down a predator he intends to harpoon.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 1, 2019
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
Any way, whatever the reason of it was, he had Patsy Flaherty leathering the mare like the devil.
From The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham
To receive this commission, he had been summoned from the drawing-room, whose floor he was engaged in leathering to the requisite degree of lustre.
From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates
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