What is "peeling"

Usage examples of "peeling".

Un-adorned metal boxes, beaders use minute particles of glass oxide impact beads and around eighty pounds of air pressure to blast rust and peeling paint off car parts.

Though its paint was cracked and peeling, the device it bore showed plain: a black bat on a field divided bendwise, silver and gold.

He squelched through the mud toward the hogs and flung them a bucketful of parsnip peelings and other such delicacies.

Melrose Plant, who had his cosher under his arm and was peeling off leather gloves supple enough for a surgeon.

The two men stopped before a warped and peeling door while Cox inserted the key into the lock.

He began peeling away the foil from one champagne bottle to reveal a wire doohickey over the cork.

They wrapped in the felts designed for storms until, from a distance, they might well have seemed to be a straggling column of mummies, bandages peeling, staggering and lurching from their inquiet sleep.

The peeling orange door sank into a ground-level sill, and the jawless skull of a groundhog chewed the dirty white lintel.

With methods not strictly ethical, he spent more time peeling away the layers of Laine Tavish and began to get a picture.

I think that outside the House of God even in a cemetary there is no result just process and that here at last, with my love holding me, each day might be filled with all things and all colors and the eternal repetition of all colorful things renewed, and I feel that it just might be that in the flow of time the layers of bitterness might begin to peel away, until bitterness itself had become but a faint etching on a glass wall, layers of etched glass walls leading down a life toward a latency, a summer-game, a summer of fun, and as I struggle to rest the layers of bitterness are beginning to peel off, are peeling off, leaving me homing upriver toward innocence and nakedness and rest, as in the time before the House of God with Berry thank God for Berry and except for Berry where would I be for without her I could never learn to love as once I did love and will love and love.

He glanced up at the mildewy ceiling with its peeling frescoed cherubs.

The summits are more than five thousand feet high, and then the roads descend through tiny villages whose buildings are mostly gray shadows of their former incarnations, tumbled with old-fashioned perennials and weeds, fading storefronts and little churches with peeling paint: Adams, Athena, Elgin, Minam, Wallowa, Lostine.

Oh zorry, me ol moite, Freddy smiled, reaching into his wallet and peeling off some notes which he handed over to Glen.

After putting the child for a rest and peeling potatoes - should be new ones with a navarin but not at this time of year - she screwed herself up.

Spanish, all the houses gray, more bright plastic madonnas in nunnish getups on peeling front porches, stores and bodegas and low-suspension cars triple-parked, an all-out full-cast creche-type scene hung from a second-floor balcony, clotheslines hanging between houses, gray houses in rows squished right up next to each other in long rows with tiny toy-strewn yards, and tall, the houses, like being squished in from either side distends them.