How to Use leathery in a Sentence

leathery

adjective

• The tree is small with leathery leaves, and the fruit is nine ounces with green skin.
  — Noris Ledesma, miamiherald, 22 June 2017
• The leathery skin can impede the growth of the fruits or lead to fruit splitting.
  — Ottillia "toots" Bier, Orange County Register, 11 May 2017
• In one place, the crown of a skull stuck out of the dirt, brilliant white with a fringe of leathery scalp and hair.
  — Balint Szlanko, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
• His hands were bare, black and leathery, like his face.
  — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• This scent is made from pure oud oil and gives off a spicy, leathery scent.
  — Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 26 Apr. 2018
• Standing at the base of the tree with the eggs in my hands, feeling their strangely leathery shells with my thumbs.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• As the Black Knight, your character then spends the next five hours battling the faces of leathery old men.
  — Andrew Groen, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2013
• Leathery old Hélio Saraiva has had three strains of dengue.
  — Sam Kean, Science | AAAS, 17 Aug. 2017
• Leaves are thick and leathery, 2 to 3 inches wide with spiny margins.
  — Karen Dardick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2018
• With his long leathery neck, dull-yellow face and beady eyes, there’s just something about Diego.
  — Aimee Ortiz, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2020
• Cohn had bloodshot eyes, a botched face-lift, thinning hair, and a leathery tan, as if he’d been left too long on the griddle.
  — Dwight Garner, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2019
• If the stratum corneum gets too dry, the skin can become itchy, scaly, inflamed, leathery and unattractive.
  — Jane E. Brody, idahostatesman, 29 Oct. 2017
• Scaly, spiny and snaggletoothed, soaring through the sky on leathery wings.
  — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
• Both the rice pudding and the milk pudding called kazandibi had developed leathery skins over the top, and the baklava was hard and fractious.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Mar. 2018
• Customers are encouraged to take a deep whiff of the leathery goodness.
  — Vagney Bradley, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
• The young trees looked like boy soldiers, thin and lanky, their heads of green, leathery leaves hovering just a foot or so above the water.
  — Jessica Wapner, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2019
• About 200 of the leathery-skinned turtles reside in Lake Champlain, most of them clustering around the mouth of the river.
  — National Geographic, 3 Feb. 2016
• The ground is spongy, thick with needles and the leathery brown tanoak leaves that Campbell fears might be keeping new trees from emerging.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
• For most of the year, these lemurs make bitter, leathery smelling chemicals used to keep other males at bay.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 16 Apr. 2020
• His chest and stomach are covered by leathery skin grafts and scar tissue.
  — Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, 6 Sep. 2017
• The texture will be creamy and the flavor sweet, with no hint of leathery bitterness that so many find off-putting in eggplant.
  — Evan Kleiman, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
• Horton could see its dinosaur-like leathery scales and bony plates running down its back.
  — Karina Elwood, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• XV Beacon, filled with its warm leathery textures and rich chocolate and cafe con leche tones, is a frequent visitor to the top of the list.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• Sea turtle eggs are the size of ping pong balls, but unlike brittle chicken eggs, their shell is leathery and pliable.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2020
• And leathery, aromatic lotus leaves were the gift wrap for fragrant sticky rice and chicken.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Unlike Amarone, the result is less leathery, with softer fruit and a more chocolatey texture.
  — Amanda Schuster, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• The older gardeners in your area have more than just leathery skin from all that sun exposure.
  — Popular Science, 15 Mar. 2021
• People are married to the idea that dinosaurs have this crocodilian, leathery, scaly, reptile skin.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Sep. 2017
• With its leathery dark green oblong leaves and twining habit, this evergreen looks good year-round.
  — Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2017
• The no-convection oven batch was more leathery on the outside, creamy within, and noticeably less browned.
  — Joe Ray, WIRED, 10 May 2018

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