How to Use sealskin in a Sentence

sealskin

noun
  • Our elders know how to make tools and sealskin pants the right way.
    — Jennie Punter, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The animal-rights movement of the seventies had driven down demand for sealskin, cratering prices.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • But among the 62 artifacts is an Inuvialuit sealskin kayak from the western Arctic, which was the last to come off the plane in its own cargo box, CBC reported.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Wool was sent to Britain in commercial quantities from 1821, although until 1834 the products of the fisheries, whale oil, and sealskins formed the principal exports.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The boxes contained more than 60 precious cultural artifacts, including a rare Inuit sealskin kayak, which were taken from First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities more than a century ago and have been held in the Vatican museums and vaults ever since.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025

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