How to Use leathery in a Sentence

leathery

adjective
  • The skin should be bright or deep red and feel firm and leathery.
    — Jinan Banna, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2025
  • This scent is made from pure oud oil and gives off a spicy, leathery scent.
    — Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The tree is small with leathery leaves, and the fruit is nine ounces with green skin.
    — Noris Ledesma, miamiherald, 22 June 2017
  • Look for smooth, matte, leathery skin free from cracks and soft spots.
    — Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Look for smooth, matte, leathery skin free from cracks and soft spots.
    — Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The plant is named for its broad, thick, leathery leaves that are shaped like a fiddle.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Heaps of leathery brown prickly pear pads sagged into the dirt and ash.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The leathery skin can impede the growth of the fruits or lead to fruit splitting.
    — Ottillia "toots" Bier, Orange County Register, 11 May 2017
  • Beach vitex has small, round leaves and a smooth, leathery texture.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The plants’ leaves are so leathery, that a power blower shouldn’t do this.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Three leathery older women stalked through the halls.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Large, dark green palmlike leaves have a leathery texture that shrugs off snow and ice with ease.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Dec. 2025
  • In one place, the crown of a skull stuck out of the dirt, brilliant white with a fringe of leathery scalp and hair.
    — Balint Szlanko, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • His chest and stomach are covered by leathery skin grafts and scar tissue.
    — Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The path opened to a grove of yerba mate trees, about eight feet tall with dense, leathery leaves that smelled like grass.
    — Kendall Hunter, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Horton could see its dinosaur-like leathery scales and bony plates running down its back.
    — Karina Elwood, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Its thick, leathery skin gives way to greenish-yellow flesh speckled with tiny seeds.
    — Katie Chang, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Their skins were thick and leathery, their juice surprisingly tart, and their seeds fat.
    — David Swanson, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Leaves are thick and leathery, 2 to 3 inches wide with spiny margins.
    — Karen Dardick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2018
  • Scaly, spiny and snaggletoothed, soaring through the sky on leathery wings.
    — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Abibu's brown, leathery skin splits easily.
    — Sophia Li, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Standing at the base of the tree with the eggs in my hands, feeling their strangely leathery shells with my thumbs.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • With his long leathery neck, dull-yellow face and beady eyes, there’s just something about Diego.
    — Aimee Ortiz, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Oud is complex, smoky, leathery, sometimes sweet, and always rich.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The leaves are dark green, elliptical, glossy, thick, and leathery.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Customers are encouraged to take a deep whiff of the leathery goodness.
    — Vagney Bradley, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
  • With its leathery dark green oblong leaves and twining habit, this evergreen looks good year-round.
    — Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2017
  • For most of the year, these lemurs make bitter, leathery smelling chemicals used to keep other males at bay.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 16 Apr. 2020
  • If the stratum corneum gets too dry, the skin can become itchy, scaly, inflamed, leathery and unattractive.
    — Jane E. Brody, idahostatesman, 29 Oct. 2017
  • If the stratum corneum gets too dry, the skin can become itchy, scaly, inflamed, leathery and unattractive.
    — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017

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