Sentence examples for wool off from inspiring English sources

Some of the clerihews were celebratory, if odd ("Could act the wool off a sheep / Meryl Streep").

Four-time Australian champion shearer Ian Elkins responded to the RSPCA's call for help, eventually taking 40kg of wool off the Chris the sheep – and setting an unofficial world record.

After watching a 1957 match, the English author Alan Ross wrote, "There were moments when one wanted to send him out a double scotch and instruct him to take the cotton wool off his bat and really hit it".

It derives its name from the itch that leads sheep and goats to scrape the wool off their flanks and rub themselves against solid surfaces for relief.

It can be straight off the animal without further processing, or you can purchase carded wool off the internet or at craft shows.

Leather labourers have worked in the same way here for around 7,000 years; soaking hides until the wool comes off, dying them and drying them in the sun.

It's really only now, when the cotton wool comes off the international players, that we see the competition in its best light.

The American public will be very sorry when the wool comes off their eyes and they realize they've been served a decoy.

B. amyloliquefaciens MA20 and B. subtilis MA21 produced alkaline keratinolytic serine protease when cultivated in mineral medium containing 1% of wool straight off sheep as sole carbon and nitrogen source.

It will dry up like cotton wool, snap off and fall out.

In every detail, in proportion and fit, a coat in charcoal English wool, with off-white facing in the front flap — the better to flatter the face — was proof that masculine tailoring can be made feminine and modern.