How to Use thick-skinned in a Sentence

thick-skinned

adjective
  • Southerners like to use these thick-skinned grapes for preserves and wines.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But this is the time of year when thick-skinned, long radishes like daikon begin to come into season.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Wash the outside of the thick-skinned produce and wash your hands before cutting into it.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 July 2026
  • And its terminal ballistics can handle all but thick-skinned dangerous game.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Fishman’s job had been to promote the tiny, thick-skinned species of the fruit that grows wild in Maine, as iconic a state delicacy as lobster.
    — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
  • Murdoch is thick-skinned and accustomed to being underestimated by the condescending Brits, who see him as a crass interloper.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The trunk, in the manner of succulent trees at large, is technically a caudex or thick-skinned water storage structure, which, in this case, is also the principal photosynthesizing or food-producing organ of the tree.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 20 Dec. 2025

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