calloused

How To Use calloused In A Sentence

• Only his hands were a giveaway, smooth and uncalloused by hard work. THE LAST TEMPTATION
• She yanked them back, frowning at his calloused skin and cracked nails.
• He would stare dumfounded at the erudite personage at the head of the class; Leander's bare feet were always carefully adjusted to a crack between the puncheons of the floor, literally "toeing the mark"; his broad trousers, frayed out liberally at the hem, revealed his skinny and scarred little ankles, for his out-door adventures were not without a record upon the more impressionable portions of his anatomy; his waistband was drawn high up under his shoulder-blades and his ribs, and girt over the shoulders of his unbleached cotton shirt by braces, which all his learning did not prevent him from calling "galluses"; his cut, scratched, calloused hands were held stiffly down at the side seams in his nether garments in strict accordance with the regulations. The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
• Grabbing the boy by his hair, he pulled his head forward, running his finger along the rough calloused scar on the back of the boy's neck.
• Underneath the hardened, calloused hands and slightly sunburnt nose, there was a hint of elegance.
• She yanked them back, frowning at his calloused skin and cracked nails.
• With satisfaction she noticed how her dear little hands were becoming calloused.
• You remember the yellow pull-out drawers Dad labeled sheet metal, rope, soldering stuff, hinges; your Saturday drives to Entz White: one of his calloused hands at the top of the wheel, the other holding his coffee mug against the truck seat. Lunch Hour
• The skin on my buttocks now seems permanently calloused.
• In these circumstances, a man with highly calloused palms can make quite a good living.