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

No more feeding sheets of paper backed by carbon paper with attached onion skin for copies.

From Salon • May 4, 2019

The papers, some made from onion skin, are currently in Philadelphia, where they are being preserved and copied.

From Washington Times • May 21, 2017

Not only did they look and feel like onion skin, they kind of smelled like onion too.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya