rawhide

Example Sentences

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Ziegler said he used the rawhide mallet to strike the gun, while the hammer was pulled back, from several directions.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2024

Metal ring bits adopted from the Spanish caused distinctive fractures in an animal’s teeth and palate; rawhide bridles developed by Native people wore telltale grooves in the lower jaw.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2023

The dog even had her own shelf, so each pit stop meant she got treats or a rawhide and, if it was her mealtime, kibble.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2021

Three days later, the campaign chiefs from Florida and Arizona were summoned to the Roosevelt Room, where Trump gnawed on them furiously like a dog with a length of old rawhide.

From Salon • May 31, 2020

There were no seats; old raffia bags and rawhide canes and empty bottles lay scattered on the rusting floor.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie