leatherlike

Example Sentences

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“I don’t think this is avant-garde,” pronounced Michael as he surveyed Josh C.’s outfit of black shorts, high-necked white blouse and odd leatherlike fabric covering the model’s shoulder blades.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2011

The center becomes drier and more leatherlike, and sinks in as the whole increases in size.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Her hands beggared description; their covering resembled skin not at all, but a dark-blue substance, leatherlike, bruised, ingrained, indigo-hued.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van

Those hard blue eyes were brimming with tears; the leatherlike skin was working curiously about the mouth.

From The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Connor, Ralph

Then, emptying the cups, and chewing up the tough, leatherlike maize cakes, the hunters slip quietly out of camp, and set their faces for the Cerro.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne