rind
Example Sentences
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He writes: “The best way to control a person’s mind is to tell them stories that are to humans as orange rinds are to jewel bugs.”
“Aw, Grandpa,” I said, “don’t pay any attention to him. He just wants a meat rind.”
From Literature
“Measuring spoons, castor oil—blech!—a large cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid, moldy apples, goose fat, rinds of cheese...”
From Literature
It’s nutty and crystalline, aged for years in northern Italy and legally protected from imitation, down to the cows’ diet and the wheels’ signature rind stamp.
From Salon
The kind that reeks of washed rinds, that crunches with tyrosine crystals, that bears the name of a tiny European village in delicate, old-world type.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
