Leathery in a sentence

Its narrow, gray-green, one-inch leaves are leathery and point upward, minimizing their sun exposure.

As I made my way through the cobbled streets, past the patchwork of ceramic tiles adorning the store fronts and leathery old men chugging on cigars, the corners of my mouth stretched towards my ears.

The biggest obstacle to enjoying them on the regular during their cold-weather season is getting those bountiful seeds from the leathery skin and clingy white internal membranes.

A beat up, leathery mirrored carp.

Goldie’s Wood Fern is a large fern with leathery fronds that can be more than one-foot wide – forming a very impressive plant.

The tannins are soft and easy, and there is just enough of that sangiovese leathery goodness on the finish to work great with stuffing.

The water-soaked areas usually enlarge and turn dark brown and leathery.

Animal fur has a pale leathery backing, which is in fact the animals skin, when parted it looks much like a human hair parting.

Or, there’s current-day, more leathery Hogan, who became embroiled in a sex tape and racial slur scandal that, through a much-covered lawsuit, brought an end to the website Gawker.

Ratsbane has leathery sharp spear-shaped leaves with a streak of white along the center vein.

The 2000 was the glossier, fruitier of the two, whereas the leathery scented 2001, freighted with more oak, showed desirable black olive and grilled meat flavours, which typify the Syrah variety.

You’d expect the richest citizen of Monaco to be an old, leathery tanned guy sipping champagne and lounging on a yacht.

Overcook them, and water will escape from within, leaving behind rubbery eggs and leathery meat.

There are plenty of close-ups of Churchill’s face but never once does his leathery wrinkled skin, thinning hair or liver patches appear artificial.

After rehydration, tapioca products become leathery and swollen.

But let it cool enough to be quaffed and enjoyed, and your lips will be coated with a sticky scum that forms across the surface, which if left undisturbed will become a leathery membrane that can be wound around your finger and flipped away..

Camels' mouths have a thick leathery lining, allowing them to chew thorny desert plants.

Elliptic, alternate, leathery, glossy evergreen leaves (to 5” long) are dark green above and yellow green beneath and reminiscent to the leaves of rhododendrons.

Jackson, p. 81. Its nose is fairly large and covered in leathery skin.

Some turtles do not have horny scutes; for example, the leatherback sea turtle and the soft-shelled turtles have shells covered with leathery skin, instead.