rawhide

Example Sentences

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However, during the FBI tests in 2022 at the agency’s lab in Quantico, Va., forensic analysts used a rawhide mallet to strike the gun so hard that components of the gun fractured.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 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

Or if the buckskin has been washed for five days in a row, it turns into rawhide.

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2022

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

He felt Wolf starting to nibble the rawhide with his sharp front teeth, and kept very still so as not to put him off.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver