Leathery in a sentence as an adjective

I'm not sure what you mean by "drying out the edges, making them leathery". I think I can just say "no" on that.

The white ends up amber and rather leathery. My Chinese friend won't eat them.

****, I have problem finding sweet peppers that are molded and/or aren't wilted leathery looking things when I go to the grocery each week. Week after week, store after store, without fail.

The eye doctor explained that human eyes get thicker and more leathery as we age, which changes their shape. So if you're myopic before this time, you have a decent chance of having improved vision.

The wet kind just doesn't melt that well; it turns into white globs with a kind of leathery exterior [2] and looks not unlike fried egg whites. The dry kind melts much more evenly [3], and doesn't have that same leathery texture.

Your eyes change shape as you age -- they get more "leathery". In my case, I had myopia from about 16 until I was 40, although I stopped wearing glasses a few years before I hit 40 because I found that I didn't really need them.

Or is physicals and natural chaos just extremely leathery when it comes to extracting the generating program? Our lives depend on it.

Where as the Quetzalcoatlus would simply use the surface-area of their leathery wings to glide, like human-made gliders.

The vast majority of joints in the body are synovial: two bones surrounded by a leathery capsule filled with fluid. The cartilage surfaces receive very little blood flow.

It seems like it would just dry out the edges, making them leathery; however, I'm willing to be educated otherwise in the effort to make a great steak.

As soon as you develop an honest and genuine belief that your moral system requires you to eat pancakes, I'll consider the notion that prisons should be required to serve you shitty, leathery pancakes. The thing is, you're not going to do that, and neither is anyone else.

A different history, credits Marmalade as a successor to decades of Marmelada import - that it simply got less leathery and more jammy to suit the market. But that sounds apocryphal once I read the OP.

He was dressed impeccably in a suit that probably cost more than my first car and was carrying one of those leathery-thingys that seemed to exist only for the purpose of being carried during interviews. > I stole a glance to a few of the people from my team who had looked up when he walked in.

I saw a lot of dirty, leathery, gap-toothed people, and it seemed most couldn't afford shoes. The population density was incredible, with entire families working plots of land that weren't any bigger than suburban yards.

Not just a fluffy almost pain de mie with a leathery crust. Third best has been another one of the big supermarkets, probably SuperU. They have a coupage or something like that that is probably a very high hydration that's made into a sheet, then cut lengthwise into baguette shapes.

And the boss was some leathery EE who was great fun at first, then it was switched out to a MBA who wanted to be my friend, but otherwise pretty much let me do what I wanted as long as I didn't **** off the ops guys. Funny story, I found one of the ops guys who worked with me at that job many years later, after the .

Interesting read, but I would have appreciated a few more examples of skeuomorphism other than the leathery ical. frankly I ask myself whether it's possible to design a GUI without any skeuomorphisms at all.

> the team discovered lymphatic vessels in the dura, the leathery outer coating of the brain Can someone explain why these vessels were never discovered during autopsies until now? Are they too thin, or transparent, or thought to have been something else, or the tubes become squished after death and therefore difficult to separate from other tissue, or what?

As the pizza sits, heat continues to travel from the exterior to the interior, and moisture travels from the interior to the exterior, resulting in a crust that has a slight leathery character, and an interior that is firm and quite chewy. Unfortunately, there is no way to prevent this process, heat retaining delivery bag or no.

Leathery definitions

adjective

resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable

See also: coriaceous leathered leatherlike