Sentence examples for off the bark from inspiring English sources

(Squirrels damage trees by stripping off the bark).

I have a sculptor friend who peels off the bark of the young trees' branches and lets them dry.

An article in the Sonora Herald, a local newspaper, reported that Captain Hanford, the man leading the enterprise, "is about stripping off the bark".

C. To peel off the bark around: cingere est deglabrare, Dig. 47, 7, 6 Pr, cf. Plin 17, 24, 37, 234 sqq.

It picked up her trailer and dashed it into the woods at some unthinkable speed, with the same wind that snapped the trees in half and sheered off the bark.

These jets were driven across the kids' bodies, lacerating their flesh, tearing clothing off their backs; hitting the elm trees in nearby Kelly Ingram Park, the blasts ripped off the bark.

"Phil, you can say what you want," assured the pediatrician, "but you have one instance in Manitoba, Canada, in 1986 where an 8-month-old crawled outside, crawled, and tried to rub his diaper off on the bark of a tree.

Cut the very top of the stick into a point by shaving off pieces of the bark.

Pull off a piece of the bark.

Strip off all of the bark.

Shave off all of the bark with a pocket knife.