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How to use the word peeling in a Sentence?

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I would definitely recommend peeling and washing thoroughly with water, steer away from detergents or other advertised items. Rinsing with water will reduce pesticide levels.

Alexis Temkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At some stage, many of us would have felt that, ‘is this the right thing to do for these babies?’ These babies were in significant pain, distress, and their skin was peeling off. Even removing surgical tape would mean that their skin would peel off.

Prakesh Shah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Breaking the code was not a eureka moment — it took quite a while, each time peeling another layer of the ‘onion,’.

George Lasry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Cars were peeling out on Gwynn Oak and racing back through the Shop Rite parking lot.

Christopher Ervin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's had about a thousand lives in it, some brittle and cold, others quaint and lively. The wallpaper's peeling and the pipes are rusting. The shingles are breaking away, falling to ancient earth but the hearth still smells of warm breakfast, eggs sizzling in their beds, toast crisp with strains of raspberry jam, griddlecakes tanning themselves, milk being topped off. Somewhere there is a rumbling, a truck bearing gifts of furniture, a car with parents cooing to their young and calming the family pets as they speed on to their destination.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

This election is a warning for all Demoralized Democrats. While DC Democrats spent weeks fighting each other, Republicans were focused on mobilizing their base and peeling away voters from the President Joe Biden coalition using deceptive, divisive tactics, it's time to focus on what's next. Congressional Democrats must immediately pass the infrastructure and Build Back Better bills. We must begin tomorrow to consolidate and mobilize those who turned out to vote Democratic in 2020. And we must draw a sharp contrast between Democratic progress and Republican extremism.

Guy Cecil

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We wanted to respect the idea that a meadow was here, rather than obliterating the meadow and planting a large trophy home, we wanted to take the idea of peeling the meadow up and kind of tuck the house underneath it.

Caleb Mulvena

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Premature babies, especially those at gestational ages less than 30 weeks, have skin that is highly underdeveloped, it's very common that these babies receive injury to the skin when peeling away the tapes.

John Rogers

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I had to be very delicate when peeling the dead infected skin off the ear canal and eardrum, he said. It usually takes half the time.

Neel Raithatha

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It was too hot, too much smoke, I had to get out of there, i literally felt my skin peeling and my lungs being suffocated by smoke. I couldn’t get the fire extinguisher to work.

Bob Mule

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You can start basically peeling back the onion, hopefully what it will do is it will speed up the process by which they can actually look at all of the different elements of this and possibly roll up some more suspects.

Khalid El Bakraoui

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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