Sentence examples for paper skin from inspiring English sources
The builder worried tobacco into a paper skin.
All the hornets (the sterile drones and workers and the fecund queen) contribute to making the nest, some chewing wood to create the ever-expanding paper skin, others constructing the tissue-thin hexagonal interior grid where larvae are hatched — a grid that has fired human imagination, from Frank Lloyd Wright's to Marc Newson's.
The key to excellence depends on a combination of factors, both empirical and ineffable: the flexibility and balance of the kites' bamboo frames, the strength of the glue binding the tissue paper skin, the quality of the string, the evenness of the spool and, of course, the skill of the fliers and their ability to adjust to the vicissitudes of the wind.
In this paper, skin colour is modelled based on a reflectance model of the skin, the parameters of the camera and light sources.
You can feel his heart pumping through the thin paper skin of his palm.
It passed through his translucent, tissue paper skin with a sonic boom, freezing his body in terror and awe.
Mr. Hunt became known in the mid 70's for beautiful sculptures in the form of miniature dirigibles made with balsa wood interior framing and paper skins covered with metal leaf or paint.
RECOMMENDED DISHES -- Roadhouse chili, corn-crusted calamari, chorizo fondue, braised short ribs in mole colorado sauce, pepita-crusted salmon, snapper in rice-paper skin, Key lime tart.
Once when I picked Beth up, noticing how "floppy" she was, a featherweight sack of bones held together by tissue-paper skin, I recalled a patient I had taken care of years before.
Having hilariously conjured a scary Medusa-like teacher with graph-paper skin and hair made of snaking pencils, happily, once again, Annalina finds reality very different: her teacher turns out to be friendly and nice.
It is only as the livid yellow light of dawn seeps into the room, and one by one they are jerked to life from the warm embrace of sleep, that we can make out the ravaged contours of their faces and, when speech comes at last, the ravaged souls beneath the wax-paper skin.
