- present participle of peel.
peeling
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BALTIMORE—With its boarded-up windows and peeling facade, the vacant building didn’t seem like the kind of house that would prompt a bidding war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Telltale signs of water damage include discolored wall panels, black mold, cracking plaster or peeling paint, just to name a few.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Washing or peeling can lessen the risk of infection, but cooking food to at least 158 degrees reliably kills Cyclospora.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Inside, the furniture, walls and ceiling are completely blackened, and parts of the ceiling is peeling off.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
She pooched out her cheeks and inspected the trunk, parched and peeling from the drought.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
But at the very bottom, underneath some carrot or sweet potato peelings, there was a napkin.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2022
Mr. Bottura has teamed up with chefs from his restaurants to produce four video lessons with tips for using items like vegetable peelings for a sauce and bread crusts to make a caramel cake.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
The 36-year-old said she had been finding potatoes, peelings, pasta and sandwiches in tin foil and cling film "daily" in her horses' field in the weeks before Chicco's death.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2021
Elsewhere, children begged at the doors of more well-off neighbors, hoping for stale bread, table scraps, or raw potato peelings.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
All day long the outside stove cooked peelings and gristle into chicken feed.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
