Sentence examples for coarse skin from inspiring English sources

As with artichoke leaves, the spicy flesh remained on our tongues as the coarse skin was drawn away and discarded.

Peel the cucumber lightly, so as to remove the coarse skin but leaving behind as much of the bright green that lies directly under the skin as possible.

When it's cool enough to handle, peel away the coarse skin and cut away any tough connective tissue on the underside.

His coarse skin seemed made of old leather upholstery, and, instead of lips, a small seam opened and disclosed his cement-colored teeth.

Stories of the couple's meeting, publicized on Xinhua.net, depict the glamorous starlet initially dismissing the future President as a xiang ba lao, a country bumpkin with coarse skin who wasn't much to look at, an impression that isn't entirely unfounded.

She remembered his hazel-gray eyes, the close-up view of his coarse skin, a circle like an old scar beside his nose, the slick breadth of his chest as he reared up from her.

MONTREAL — Dried loofah, a fruit of the gourd family, is commonly used as a coarse, skin-scrubbing bath sponge.

William Manchester's 1968 book, "The Arms of Krupp," ends with a lurid image of "the first grim Aryan savage crouched in his garment of coarse skins, his crude javelin poised, tense and alert, cloaked by night and fog, ready; waiting; and waiting".

A few days later, in the most grotesque and satisfying manner, all the dead, coarse, calloused skin will peel off in large pieces, revealing soft, young-looking feet.

Leave until cool enough to handle then peel off the coarse outer skin, more easily removed while the tongues are still warm.

The dragon eye — longan in Cantonese — is a strange fruit, a sweet, subtly fragrant exotic with coarse, sandpapery skin.