Took off

Usage examples of peeled.

Miles peeled back the biotainer wrap from his left wrist, and gritted his teeth as a biocide swab stung and the needle poked.

Before the guard could respond, Bors and Tristran peeled off, looking to kill more Woads.

But then the plaster softened in the brumal rains and peeled away, exposing the name of the architect.

Sanner peeled off one of his caving gloves and waved his bare hand through the air as they continued along the ledge.

But he did ask me to keep my eyes peeled for a cheapish long-case clock.

Sparks peeled back off it as it dropped, smoke coiling in the trail it made through the empty air.

The young shoots peeled and boiled may be eaten as asparagus, and are gently laxative.

The outer layer of each piece of wood burnt so fast that as the ashes peeled away it looked as if somebody had just flumped a busted pillow on the ground and released a hundred thousand feathers all at once.

A bandage covered a small cut on his thumb and he peeled it off now, sucking briefly at the crude wound and then flushing the bandage down the germless well, imagining for a moment an identical plastic strip floating to the surface of the water that filled a stainless-steel wash basin in a toilet on an airliner above an antipodal point.

She unscrewed the storage grommet, peeled off the button-sized memory wafer, and held it between thumb and forefinger.

The nose of the Hagg had broken loose and peeled back part of the fuselage like a giant can-opener.

It silvered once again the old stone shields: sable shadows on a ground argent, a device older by far than the proud hatchments in gules and azure and vert which had long since peeled from the crumbling surfaces.

He got out his wallet and peeled off the equivalent of three hund mi dollars--about twenty bills--knowing that would buy a beck of a lot of joy juice.

The Jackaroo made no remark But peeled and waded in, And soon the Man from Ironbark Had three teeth less to grin!

I peeled the Ket symbol from the door of my rented room after Griffin left, having enough to think about for the moment.