| NOUN | a potato peeler | potato peelers |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- At the factory, Frank Dorsa used his mechanical knowledge to invent a continuous potato peeler that would save employees from having to peel potatoes by hand.
- The story ends when one night the father attempted to rape her mother while she was cooking and the friend ended up accidentally piercing his throat on a potato peeler, which resulted in the father's death and mother's conviction of murder and imprisonment till this day.
- Together, Emery and Motes witness a blind preacher and his teenage daughter crash a street vendor's potato peeler demonstration to advertise for their ministry.
- Nately's whore blames Yossarian and spends the rest of the book trying to murder him with objects such as a potato peeler.
- However, the detective receives a call, interrupting his search of Tony's home just as Tony eyes up a sharp potato peeler and contemplates the dangerous decision to attack and kill him.
- He also worked as a potato peeler and a rafter to support his family.
- Valerie was rushing to get to the party, and she tried to fix the plug on her hairdryer by tightening it with a potato peeler.
- Middlemark held several patents for his inventions; many were lesser known than his famed Rabbit Ears, such as: a water-powered potato peeler (which failed because when done, a large potato was reduced down to the size of a large marble) and a tennis ball rejuvenator that was designed to bring the bounce back to used tennis balls.
- While it had always been taken and eaten, a fisherman who put some of the perch in his catch through an industrial potato peeler found that it neatly removed the fish's scales and skin, leaving behind two boneless filets ready for preparation and cooking; local restaurants came up with their own recipes, and by the end of the century demand for perch filets had grown to the point where most had to be imported.
- One of the fans from 1960s to the 1990s was Raúl Bernechea, known as "el pelapapas" (the "potato peeler") after his job as a kitchen hand; he was noted for lighting bonfires during games, juggling and performing other stunts [...].
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