Sentence examples for off the flesh from inspiring English sources

Lobbyists brushed off the flesh wounds.

Colors are subtle here: the orange lichen on a stone pot sets off the flesh tones of the five mottled trunks of a nearby kousa dogwood.

In my local park there is a tree crowned with amber-red haws, big enough to pluck and suck off the flesh.

Supporting their friend's head, they rolled him on his side and discovered that his left buttock was half torn off, the flesh laced with rough bits of the truck cab.

Here, women were forced to boil heads severed from the corpses of their own people (sometimes their own relations) and scrape off the flesh with bits of glass so the skulls could be sent to museums, universities and anthropological collections in Germany.

Then it picks off the flesh and leaves the bones behind.

(The heroes and heroines make their last stand at the place they feel safest -- the local pub, where they can knock back a pint or two while they're knocking off the flesh-eaters).

Will you follow Pippa's lead and wear nude hosiery on cooler summer nights, or have you sworn off the flesh-toned tights?

In opposition to the classical Roman love of sensuality, the early Christian monks set out to mortify their bodies and fight off all the temptations of the flesh.

The salt does not have to be rinsed off and the flesh and the tender peel can be eaten.

With just four songs to her name so far, and still fresh off a debut US performance in New York earlier this month, her SXSW showcase should be an opportunity to see how much of the hype pays off in the flesh.