How to Use aniline in a Sentence

aniline

noun
  • Plus, the full-grain aniline leather looks better with use.
    Bryan Rogala, Outside Online, 13 July 2018
  • The interior of my test truck was wrapped in soft black aniline leather.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The Wheat semi-aniline leather comes with dark gray stitching and piping; the Graphite leather gets medium gray stitching and piping.
    star-telegram, 30 June 2018
  • Socks made with aniline dyes inflamed men’s feet and gave garment workers sores and even bladder cancer.
    National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
  • The interior is a classy blend of yin and yang, with quilted and perforated gray semi-aniline leather seats on all three rows and a black dashboard.
    Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Inside, the seats are covered with two-tone semi-aniline leather and faux suede, with contrast piping and contrast stitching in a quilted pattern.
    Tony Markovich, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Lash Lure This 1933 mascara promised to give women that permanently made-up look using aniline dye on eyelashes.
    Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
  • In 1863, an even cheaper synthetic aniline black dye was developed.
    Shelley Puhak, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Cruise the Land Besides seats and running boards, the Heritage also loses two cupholders (10 versus the regular 12), the cooler box in the center console, and the standard model's semi-aniline leather.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2020
  • For 2017, semi-aniline perforated leather is available in black or Terra (camel brown, included on our tester).
    G. Chambers Williams Iii, star-telegram.com, 12 May 2017
  • Also available is Wheat or Graphite upholstery, in standard leather or premium semi-aniline leather.
    star-telegram, 30 June 2018
  • The interior of the door is a sycamore-walnut veneer and the seats are covered in diamond-quilted, semi-aniline leather all sourced from a single, century-old tannery (presumably from cows that were lovingly killed).
    Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 16 June 2018
  • More discoveries soon followed: magenta, Hofmann’s violet, Lyons blue, malachite green, Bismarck brown and aniline black.
    Bruce Falconer, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018

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