Sentence examples for like a parchment from inspiring English sources

There are numerous minor problems with the novel, including Charles's voice, which veers implausibly between the barfly ("Life meant nothing, but I was having a good time") and the lyricist (a woman's skin is described as being like "a parchment, incredibly old and almost erased by age and rain, the slight gradation of color coming from sepia glyphs whose secrets were now gone").

After you've shaped the dough to your liking, place it on a parchment or silicon pad lined baking sheet.

I met History once, but he ain't recognize me, a parchment Creole, with warts like an old sea bottle, crawling like a crab through the holes of shadow cast by the net of a grille balcony; cream linen, cream hat.

Included is a parchment, suitable for framing.

Place a parchment sheet on each.

Transfer the circles to a parchment lined baking sheet.

Lay on a parchment covered baking sheet.

Under the shell of a chicken egg is a parchment-like membrane formed from two similar layers of interwoven proteinaceous fibers [15].

It's been slow going as institutions become comfortable accepting transcripts from intermediaries (like Parchment) and are just beginning to recognize the value of the data that lives around transcripts and student records.

In the second model, the parchment model, a single sheet of graphite is rolled around itself, just like a scroll of parchment or a rolled newspaper.

He was fascinated that in many parts of England the lead on churches and public buildings, including Westminster Abbey roof and Christ Church Hospital in London, was "rolled up like a roll of parchment and blown in some places clear off the building".