Sentence examples for hide stretched from inspiring English sources

The live cow is to be slaughtered and the hide stretched over the model.

Something of that magic makes its way into the "shield paintings," executed on hide stretched over ironing boards, which are by far the best of the painted works here.

August walked down the line and ran his fingers over the rough oaks and maples and the gray crêpe of the beeches, with their bark that looked like smooth, hairless hide stretched over muscle.

"It's just gone from bad to worse," said Paul Mikolajczyk, a bristle-haired man who looks as if he is built from an erector set with an elephant hide stretched over it.

Gonder is also the cradle of traditional Ethiopian music, and I spent my last evening at an intimate bar called Ambasel, drinking beer and listening to a local band — a female singer, a drummer and a masinko player, whose one-stringed instrument is made of goat hide stretched taut over a box-like frame.

The anthems are glimpsed, then hidden; stretched and compressed in time; moved up and down in pitch; suffled, interwoven, overlaid, pulverised, sliced and recombined.

As we contemplate the hides stretched out to dry, or baled up for shipping downriver, the hunters are suddenly ambushed on every flank by Arikara, who resent the rape of their country.

It's fun to imagine Bin Laden reading to pass time in hiding, stretched out on an IKEA POÄNG and eating white cheddar Pirate's Booty.

I've always believed there was nothing wrong with wearing a wetsuit when you surf, especially one that hides stretch marks.

The drum head, made of deer hide, is stretched across the frame and fastened with thongs or thumb tacks.

The drum consisted of a wooden frame, ring, or bowl over which a membrane of reindeer hide was stretched.