Sentence examples for of an onion from inspiring English sources

(Think of an onion).

It's like peeling the layers of an onion.

Dr. Kainer's investigation progressed in steps similar to peeling the layers of an onion.

More recent are those of metal having the outline of an onion.

The shells resemble the layers of an onion, with successive shells surrounding the inner shells.

But, as Stearns says, "like layers of an onion, the Congo war contains wars within wars".

"The prosecutor's reptilian eyes welled up, reminiscent of an onion sous chef who had got at the gin".

She said of a leek, "Is it a cousin of an onion?" and then got the word "leek".

Slice open a hailstone and you'll find a series of concentric rings, like the layers of an onion.

"He was not only the first, but he was elected by the skin of an onion," she said, with just over 51 percent of the vote.

I took that to be a brilliant joke on Plath's poem "Cut" which begins "What a thrill — / My thumb instead of an onion".