Leather

//ˈlɛðə//

"Leather" in a Sentence (21 examples)

Good leather will wear for years.

What were the balls made of? Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians made balls out of soft leather or cloth.

They were made of rough brown leather.

The leather jacket has worn out at the elbows.

The shop carried leather goods.

The shoes were made of some soft stuff that looked like leather.

The leather jacket has worn out at the elbow.

A pair of leather gloves is a must when you work with these machines.

The other day he bought a wallet made of kangaroo leather for me.

This bag is made of leather.

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The goalee made a frantic grab as the leather spun clean past him, but he was just a second too late, and Joe had scored for Redcliff.

Jones showed good leather to snare that liner.

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

Some research has documented the phenomenon of leather families as a form of intentional, chosen families created by members of sexual and gender minority groups, often in the face of biological family rejection and marginalization in society (Bauer, 2010; Hammack et al., 2019; Murphy & Bjorngaard, 2019; Pitagora, 2016). Leather families are a network of people that acknowledge and practice ongoing supportive relationships “while sharing the commonalities of the leather and kink scene” (Bannon, 2016). […] Very few studies have examined how many people are members of leather or other “chosen” families.

He rose and leathered his Colt as his father came to stand beside him.

By the appearance of his deep suntan, which had leathered his skin, and the calluses that covered his hands, Sheriff Anderson figured the man to be one of the area ranchers.

Some leather and droop like bat wings, others, as the poet Brenda Hillman writes, are 'hung in hashtags'.

He leathered the ball all the way down the street.

My father was very angry with me— -he took and leathered ( beat) me, because I ran away from my school ; for I did run away from my school ; he took and tied me up on a Sunday morning, leathered me a Friday night, and Saturday night : I was stripped naked when he leathered me on Friday night, and Saturday; my father told me to strip myself, and he leathered me, it was with a whip; but I do not know where he got the whip; he tied me with my arms extended so -- (spreading out her arms to their extremity, as if they were to be nailed upon a cross) -- My legs were tied too -- I was at the bottom of the dresser.

My father was furious with me and reached for the strap. He brutally leathered me with it before sending me to bed for the night.

Anyway, bums were always on view in our family, getting leathered with a heavy belt.

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