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    Use "sheepskin" in a sentence

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    sheepskin


    1. For all of his summer singlet bicep flexing, Davie's dreams are heavily populated with sheepskin coats and pints of Heavy


    2. Bits of leaves, sheepskin, papyrus


    3. He was wearing a sheepskin jacket and jeans; Scotland may well have been in Siberia as far as Hobbs was concerned and it suited the look


    4. He almost looked like the bald dad sat in his sheepskin jacket patting the steering wheel, hoping he would make it to the coast with no clue on how to get back


    5. She was lying on a sheepskin covering a pallet of leaves on a hard-beaten dirt floor


    6. A folded sheepskin coat was under her head, and she was wrapped in a ragged cloak


    7. And then she spread a sheepskin upon the floor before the hearth


    8. He insisted on wearing a thick sheepskin coat to "Keep the arthritis out


    9. Several men wore simple shubas, huge and seemingly unfitted sheepskin coats while their faces were partially covered by full beards


    10. The brown trousers, calf-length leather boots, woollen socks, a beige linen shirt topped by a shuba, a sheepskin coat, all fitted perfectly

    11. � With the Irvin trousers now up, she buttoned her skirt just under her breasts, so that it would hang down with as few wrinkles as possible, then put on the thick sheepskin leather Irvin jacket


    12. Under my sheepskin coat and my woollen jumper I was sweating unbearably


    13. Deciding to head to Odinseat to clear her mind, she threw on her sheepskin overcoat, pulled on her wool mittens, and bundled her scarf around her head, tucking it down into her neck


    14. when it was freezing outside because she could not wash a fur coat, sheepskin coat,


    15. Two of them were scavengers, trying to earn their living in an honest way, and they were all sitting on an old worn out mat and a tattered sheepskin


    16. Covered by a sheepskin rug, I lifted the object up, knowing at once that it was a shield


    17. Uniformed officers milled around and a big man in a sheepskin coat rushed to meet Miss Leggett as she leapt out of the car


    18. fully seated and even the fore floor was pebbled with people on thick sheepskin rugs and


    19. But, to make an end, not many months had passed after he returned from Salamanca, when one day he appeared dressed as a shepherd with his crook and sheepskin, having put off the long gown he wore as a scholar; and at the same time his great friend, Ambrosio by name, who had been his companion in his studies, took to the shepherd's dress with him


    20. A reaping-hook fits my hand better than a governor's sceptre; I'd rather have my fill of gazpacho' than be subject to the misery of a meddling doctor who me with hunger, and I'd rather lie in summer under the shade of an oak, and in winter wrap myself in a double sheepskin jacket in freedom, than go to bed between holland sheets and dress in sables under the restraint of a government

    21. The dead of Dublin from Prospect and Mount Jerome in white sheepskin overcoats and black goatfell cloaks arise and appear to many


    22. Blomkvist climbed out of the taxi in a pair of black boots and a white fur coat with a broad sheepskin collar, which he had dug out of the cupboard, as well as an old fur hat that had belonged to his father


    23. He felt this at the mere sight of Ignat and the horses; but when he had put on the sheepskin brought for him, had sat down wrapped in the sledge, and had driven off pondering on the work that lay before him in the village, and staring at the side-horse, that had been his saddle-horse, past his prime now, but a spirited beast from the Don, he began to


    24. The bailiff, beaming all over, like everyone that day, in a sheepskin bordered with astrachan, came out of the barn, twisting a


    25. The old man, who had put on his short sheepskin jacket, was just as good-humored, jocose, and free in his movements


    26. with a smile, standing in her white sheepskin cape, waiting


    27. I saw baby bottles on the counter, baby toys on a sheepskin rug on the floor


    28. He was wearing sheepskin and tweed and a complex essence of musk and spices and tobacco that she found endlessly compelling


    29. With a pair of felt boots on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at Bezukhov


    30. Involuntarily he noticed a Georgian or Armenian family consisting of a very handsome old man of Oriental type, wearing a new, cloth-covered, sheepskin coat and new boots, an old woman of similar type, and a young woman

    31. And it is of this period of the campaign- when the army lacked boots and sheepskin coats, was short of provisions and without vodka, and was camping out at night for months in the snow with fifteen degrees of frost, when there were only seven or eight hours of daylight and the rest was night in which the influence of discipline cannot be maintained, when men were taken into that region of death where discipline fails, not for a few hours only as in a battle, but for months, where they were every moment fighting death from hunger and cold, when half the army perished in a single month- it is of this period of the campaign that the historians tell us how Miloradovich should have made a flank march to such and such a


    32. One would have thought that under the almost incredibly wretched conditions the Russian soldiers were in at that time- lacking warm boots and sheepskin coats, without a roof over their heads, in the snow with eighteen degrees of frost, and without even full rations (the commissariat did not always keep up with the troops)- they would have presented a very sad and depressing spectacle


    33. The men drew their sheepskin clothes, loose pants, and jackets of lambskin with the fleece inside and they drew oxygen masks and parachutes and fleece-lined boots


    34. The checker at the loading station wore a sheepskin coat, and when he was not tallying, thrust hands and book and pencil into his breast pocket and moved his feet restlessly


    35. I warrant the sky seemed to you the size of a sheepskin


    36. " On the saddle was slung a plain sheepskin "touloup


    37. He felt this at the mere sight of Ignat and the horses; but when he had put on the sheepskin brought for him, had sat down wrapped in the sledge, and had driven off pondering on the work that lay before him in the village, and staring at the side-horse, that had been his saddle-horse, past his prime now, but a spirited beast from the Don, he began to see what had happened to him in quite a different light


    38. The bailiff, beaming all over, like everyone that day, in a sheepskin bordered with astrachan, came out of the barn, twisting a bit of straw in his hands


    39. They all stared at him, but no one made any remark, till a tall old man, with a wrinkled, beardless face, wearing a short sheepskin jacket, came out into the road and accosted him


    40. He lay covered with a sheepskin, and every one walked round him, without speaking; though they confidently hoped that he would come to himself next morning, yet if luck was against him, maybe from a beating like that, the man would die

    41. Ilya's employers, and many others in the town, especially of the tradespeople, tried to clothe her better, and always rigged her out with high boots and sheepskin coat for the winter


    42. But, although she allowed them to dress her up without resisting, she usually went away, preferably to the cathedral porch, and taking off all that had been given her—kerchief, sheepskin, skirt or boots—she left them there and walked away barefoot in her smock as before


    43. Kolya pointed to a tall peasant, with a good-natured countenance in a long sheepskin coat, who was standing by his wagon, clapping together his hands, in their shapeless leather gloves, to warm them


    44. Yes, here, even here!—their cap balanced on the side of their head, their sheepskin coat picturesquely over the shoulder, insolence in their eyes and mockery on their lips


    45. Scuratoff had the oldest and greasiest sheepskin that could be seen


    46. Near the kitchen, a convict from the military barracks, with his sheepskin on his shoulder, came up to me


    47. Some of the prisoners walked about in bands, sheepskin on shoulder, striking with a haughty air the strings of their balalaiki


    48. In the winter they used to put a sheepskin in for her, and every day a piece of bread and a jug of water


    49. On his head there was a tall, black sheepskin hat, tilted backwards


    50. "Not that way, father,—to the right!" she said, taking hold of the sleeve of his sheepskin coat
























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    Synonyms for "sheepskin"

    diploma sheepskin lambskin parchment fleece

    "sheepskin" definitions

    tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing


    skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on


    a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study