Sentence examples for pelts to from inspiring English sources

Poachers kill the animals and sell the pelts to smugglers who take them to northern India.

For a time, the Pilgrims capitalized on that raw material: in the 1630s, they shipped 2,000 beaver pelts to England.

For two seasons, the Jets roamed the N.F.L. landscape with success, searching for and accumulating pelts to put on their wall.

Of the roughly 400 licensed trappers in Connecticut, he said, "none have ever testified that they need to sell the pelts to make a living".

You needed between eighty and a hundred pelts to make one coat, so Grady would always go on about how they had to keep breeding them to get more and more or they'd never turn a profit.

With imports of fur apparel into the United States at their lowest point in years, it is unlikely that handing out pelts to a few designers will save the industry.

They both raced full pelt to meet a loose ball.

Oppenheim decided to apply layers of tawny gazelle pelt to a teacup, spoon and saucer.

Humans still develop this primitive gooseflesh response but, regrettably, lack the luxuriant pelt to protect themselves.

Inside the post, Mackinnon's clerk, Wolfred Roberts, had swathed his head in a fox pelt to muffle the sound, fastening the desiccated paws beneath his chin.

Certainly the special horror of stoning is rooted in the prospect of being pelted to death by one's own friends, neighbors and relatives.