LEATHER in a Sentence

Learn LEATHER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

124 example sentences for LEATHER, such as:

1. Linseed oil will soften stiff leather.
2. His black leather couch looks expensive.
3. These are leather goods of high quality.
4. Polish your shoes regularly to protect the leather.
5. The department store carries a variety of leather shoes.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEATHER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
leather
 v.  whip with a leather strap
 n.  an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning
Classic Sentence: (101 in 7 pages)
1  Accompanying him also were the smells of chewing tobacco, well-oiled leather and horses--a combination of odors that she always associated with her father and instinctively liked in other men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs, always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  Mammy followed at a few paces, the leather bag in her hand, her underlip pushed out and her brow lowering.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Shoes cost from two hundred to eight hundred dollars a pair, depending on whether they were made of "cardboard" or real leather.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  She fumbled in the leather box that hung on the wall below his saber and brought out a cap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Scarlett tore off the rag and with trembling hands opened the leather folds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  The folks are starving and the railroads are torn up and there aren't any new rifles and the ammunition is giving out and there's no leather at all for shoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  There was a close stuffy smell in the room, compounded of the smoking fire, tobacco fumes, leather, damp woolen uniforms and unwashed bodies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  The cotton was given me in good faith to buy leather and rifles and machinery with.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  He removed a leather case from his pocket, extracted a long cigar and smelled it approvingly, meanwhile watching her with pseudo anxiety as if he hung on her words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  There was the jangling of bits and the strain of leather and the sound of voices.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
12  The back door swung open and India entered, followed by old Dr. Dean, his long white hair tumbled, his worn leather bag bulging under his cape.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
14  The bag is full of treasures and of memories: a leather buckle, an ancient band-concert program, scraps of ribbon, lace, satin.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  A vista of heavy oak rockers with leather seats, asleep in a dismal row.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  The leather of his left trainer was coming away from its rubber base.
2  He reordered two pairs of black leather shoes of the latest type.
3  The department store carries a variety of leather shoes.
4  The worker tried to pierce a hole in a piece of leather.
5  The leather cover of the new dictionary was embellished with gold letters.
6  His image is redolent of the smell of old leather, old money and class.
7  Accessories for the top-of-the-range car include leather upholstery, a CD player, electric windows and a sunroof.
8  This new man-made material feels like real leather.
9  His captors had put a gag of thick leather in his mouth.
10  Linseed oil will soften stiff leather.
11  Polish your shoes regularly to protect the leather.
12  What broke the medieval guilds was printing; some one could publish a treatise on how to tan leather.
13  These are leather goods of high quality.
14  It's best for children's feet to be shod with real leather.
15  His black leather couch looks expensive.