How to use peeling in a sentence

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• Apply aftersun lotion to avoid peeling and flaking caused by sun damage.From the entry aftersun
• I served as an extra pair of hands, occasionally peeling potatoes or destringing celery.From the entry destring
• I've had enough of peeling potatoes. I'm stopping here.From the entry here
• She swept the peelings off the table onto the floor.From the entry sweep
• Between the leaky taps and the peeling wallpaper, there isn't much about this house to appeal to a buyer.From the entry between
• I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.From the entry peel
• My mom has a clever doodad for peeling oranges.From the entry doodad
• High up on a wall, stuck to peeling paintwork, are photographs of eight drivers killed in service.2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian. From the entry paintwork
• Drayvon raised an eyebrow, then continued peeling the root in his hand.2015, J. D. Vaughn, The Second Guard. From the entry groundapple
• The wallpaper was peeling off the walls and there was a smell of damp everywhere.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry makeover
• His face was sunburned bright red, and the skin of his ears was peeling.2000, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, New York: Random House, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 168. From the entry sunburnt
• The bathroom door stood agape, and the peeling vinyl floor was bare.1996, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Invasion of Privacy, page 508. From the entry agape
• Some popcorns silently flicked off like face peelings on his shoe.1988, Jim Freedman, “I-ran Sucks”, in Drawing Heat, Windsor, Ont.: Black Moss Press, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry popcorn
• You can praise God by peeling a spud if you peel it to perfection.1981, Colin Welland, Chariots of Fire, spoken by Rev. J.D. Liddell. From the entry spud
• Faded and tatty, peeling, floorboards eaten and unpolished, its philoprogenitive glory was a memory only.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 20. From the entry mess
• Once I was in my truck, I slammed the door starting the engine peeling away from my parkin spot.2014 September 24, Boo Marx, chapter 10, in The American Terrorists: The True Story of a Real Telepath who Defeated over Three Hundred…. From the entry badass
• I’d think with those green eyes you'd be peeling the chicks off your jockeys before they peeled your jockeys off you!"2010, Angelo J. Lagana III, Me Island, page 368. From the entry jockeys
• And like them, he worked high on the fretboard, peeling off nimble riffs without ever uncrooking his arm.2008 February 14, Kelefa Sanneh, “A Band That Cradles Its Rock, Even Under All Those Layers of Expectations”, in New York Times. From the entry uncrook
• Superficial peeling has always been a way to retinize the epidermis for patients that could not tolerate the use of tretinoin.2008 February, Hashimoto, Yukiko, MD; Suga, Yasushi, MD, PhD; Mizuno, Yuki, MD; Hasegawa, Toshio, MD; Matsuba, Shouichi, MD; Ikeda…. From the entry retinize
• Its covering was a waffley, metal-like substance, gold and silver on reverse sides, that was peeling to bits.1997, Mia Farrow, What Falls Away: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Nan A. Talese, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry waffley
• The paint in many rooms is peeling, and in some rooms (closed for repairs) the furniture is dusty and cobwebbed.1988 August 12, Ben Joravsky, “Can the Lawson Y be saved as an SRO hotel?”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry cobwebbed
• We are having dinner next to a mansion with scrabbly peeling paint and vermilion drapes in the windows.1972, Epoch - Volume 22, page 134. From the entry scrabbly
• He comically extols the antisociable virtues of garlic and the lachrymatory effects of peeling onions, useful for elegiac poets.1972, Manchester Studies in the History of Art, number 1, page 249. From the entry antisociable
• Would you suggest with this nonsense that we go back to peeling potatoes and cooking them over a coal stove?"1961, Margaret Elizabeth Mulac, Leisure: Time for Living and Retirement. From the entry imaginitis
• The paint on the walls was cracked and peeling.1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 135. From the entry ungenteel
• This "beadful" of fluid caused eventual peeling of the paint.1958, George Worthington, Factory - Volume 116. From the entry beadful
• The very walls were warping from heat near the craft, metal panels peeling apart and some of the exposed wiring smoldering or outright aflame.2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 15, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books…. From the entry chiaroscuro
• A good peeler could make two cords of bark a day, felling hemlocks and peeling the bark off only the trunk below the first branch.2009, David Stradling, Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry peeler
• Peeling from the nonstem end is actually a bit easier and reduces the chance that those annoying, stringy fibers will stick to the banana.2007, Barry Nalebuff, Ian Ayres, Why not?, page 116. From the entry nonstem
• Grants, baby,” she told him, bucking herself up as she went, peeling the corners back so there could be no mistaking them for lowly fives.1961, Ross Russell, “If You Can’t Get Five—”, in The Sound, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, part 2, page 181. From the entry U. S. Grant
• Even so, on that flight, I switched mental places with the laptopped visitors, their skins angry, red and peeling (had they ever encountered such intense heat before?).2008, Shobha Dé, Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstoppable. From the entry laptopped
• The Hotel Carter is one of the last cheap places to stay in Times Square, a reputation borne out by its waterstained carpets, peeling walls and healthy occupancy rates.2007 September 1, Cara Buckley, “Corpse in 608 Poses Mystery at Old Hotel for the Frugal”, in New York Times. From the entry waterstained
• Bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh, ” Klaus said, as the three children got out of the taxi and headed toward the peeling white door of Aunt Josephine's house.2005, Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, page 485. From the entry bluh

Meaning of peeling

1. noun The act of removing the outer surface in strips.
2. noun Strips of an outer rind or surface that has been removed.

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Questions about peeling in a sentence

How do you use peeling in a sentence?

Peeling is used as a noun. For example: “She flavored the broth with vegetable peelings.”

What is a short sentence with peeling?

“She flavored the broth with vegetable peelings.”

What does peeling mean?

Peeling means the act of removing the outer surface in strips.