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Example sentences for "peel"

Lexicographically close words:
peece; peeces; peek; peeked; peeking; peeled; peelers; peeling; peelings; peels
  1. The Peel Collection and the Dutch School of Painting.

  2. Take small tomatoes, scald and peel them, then cut a slice from the stem end.

  3. Boil 6 sweet potatoes, peel them, and let them get cold, then cut in two lengthwise; lay them with the rounded side down in a baking dish, put a bit of butter and salt and pepper on each piece.

  4. Arrange lettuce leaves on a round platter, pile neatly in the centre a dozen red radishes sliced thin with the red peel left on.

  5. Peel and cut small 12 large mushrooms, put them into well buttered china cases.

  6. Pare, peel and chop fine 6 apples, add them to the rice and cook until done.

  7. Peel and grate sufficient raw sweet potatoes to make 5 cupfuls.

  8. A little grated lemon peel is an improvement.

  9. And peel the potatoes, and"-- "Peel the potatoes!

  10. She took the knife and began to peel the potatoes.

  11. So she went into the cottage, and there the shepherdess ordered her to peel the potatoes for dinner.

  12. Mr. Lord, after he had rearranged his stock of candy, and had added a couple of slices of lemon-peel to what was popularly supposed to be lemonade.

  13. Always have a piece of lemon-peel floatin' on the top of every glass, an' it tastes just as good to people as if it cost twice as much.

  14. Expenditure on colonial wars and on the administration of half-settled districts was odious to the prudent and thrifty contemporaries or disciples of Sir Robert Peel and Richard Cobden.

  15. Supposing that some satisfactory arrangement were come to, and supposing also that you had a silver-bladed pocket-knife with which you could peel them in the open air, then peaches would come very high in the list of fruits.

  16. The pips can be flicked at your enemies, and quite a small piece of peel makes a slide for an old gentleman.

  17. In January the brigade took part in the battle of Kallee Nudee, and in March 1858 was again at Lucknow storming the Dilkoosha and breaching the Martinière, where Captain Peel was wounded.

  18. Ye cross iv a limon peel and a case iv jandhers!

  19. Maybe they figured you'd want to peel off his scalp," said McHale, with mild sarcasm.

  20. Peel the skin off gently, and do not fold it abruptly backward in working on these parts, but hold it as nearly as possible in its original position.

  21. Grasp the end of the vertebra protruding from the body, thus raising the bird from the bench; peel down front and back by pushing downward with the hand, rather coaxing the skin off than forcing or pulling it.

  22. Now peel away the skin about the tail, place the forefinger under its base, and cut downward through the caudal vertebra and muscles of the back quite to the skin, the finger being a guide to prevent going through this.

  23. Next, with the thumb and finger of the right hand, peel down the skin on the left side of the orifice, at the same time pressing the tibia on that side upward.

  24. Peel down on either side until the front legs appear, cut off at elbow joints, and draw these out; remove the flesh, cover with preservative, and turn.

  25. Peel well down to the base of the bill, so that every portion of the skin may be covered with preservative.

  26. Sir Robert Peel proposed a modification of the corn laws, which considerably reduced the duties.

  27. He delicately alluded to his proscription by the Peel administration, and pointed out the improvements necessary to give complete efficiency to his reform.

  28. On the first day of the session, Mr. Peel moved that the House go into committee, "to take into consideration the civil disabilities of his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects.

  29. The next day, the Iron Duke in the Peers, and the supple Peel in the Commons, announced that they had relinquished the helm of affairs!

  30. The bill passed, after a severe struggle, and Mr. Peel carried it to the Lords.

  31. Wellington and Peel refused to become members if the friends of Catholic Emancipation were admitted, and Canning refused to join if they were excluded.

  32. Was not Sir Robert Peel a Tory of the Tories and the friend of Wellington, so beloved by the people that he had to guard his house with iron shutters?

  33. It was the Dissenters who created the public opinion which enabled Sir Robert Peel and the Iron Duke to grant Roman Catholic emancipation.

  34. Sir Robert Peel spoke in a calm, dignified, statesmanlike manner, but the expression of his face was too supercilious to be pleasing.

  35. Rona, perched on a tree-stump, began her orange, and tossed long yellow strands of peel on to the bank below her.

  36. What do you think the field will look like if more than fifty people strew it with orange-peel and sandwich-paper!

  37. The statues on the quadrangular piece of ground in the centre are of Peel and Beaconsfield, north and south; Palmerston and Derby on the east.

  38. Sir Robert Peel seems impressed with the necessity of providing the citizens of London with additional parks, where they may recreate themselves, and breathe the free air of heaven.

  39. Like Sir Robert Peel and the rest of the profession, it was evidently his maxim not to interfere, unless "regularly called in.

  40. We trust that Sir Robert Peel will exercise a sound discretion in bestowing this important situation.

  41. He grasped the hatchet quickly to peel off the bark and shape the wood.

  42. If you want me to eat them, please peel them for me.

  43. The name of Sir Robert Peel recalls many episodes in the career of that most blustering baronet.

  44. Peel was an inveterate gambler, and an admittedly fine whist player, and even so late as the early eighties might be seen daily at the Turf Club at the 2 and 10 table, and a pony on the rub.

  45. Then again, in our time, if one were to peel away the verandas and the exterior corridors from our vast watering-place hostelries, what an arid baldness of wall and of character would be left!

  46. Twenty months ago I left this place at about the same hour with poor Peel for Calcutta.

  47. Peel informed me that there was a steamer in sight, coming towards us.

  48. I have agreed to give up the 'Shannon,' in order that Peel and his men may be formed into a naval brigade, and march with some of their great guns on Delhi.

  49. Peel took up water in a bucket, but could discover nothing.

  50. The ships are surrounded by boats filled chiefly by women, who pick up orange-peel and offal, and everything that is thrown overboard.

  51. We cut the candied peel as thin as we wish people would cut our bread-and-butter.

  52. The citron and orange peel cut into thin slices'--I wonder what they call thin?

  53. She arranged the lower crust on three pie-plates, and, going into the kitchen again, began to peel the apples and cut them up into the pies.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.