How To Use Calloused In A Sentence
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Only his hands were a giveaway, smooth and uncalloused by hard work.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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She yanked them back, frowning at his calloused skin and cracked nails.
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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
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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.
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Underneath the hardened, calloused hands and slightly sunburnt nose, there was a hint of elegance.
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She yanked them back, frowning at his calloused skin and cracked nails.
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With satisfaction she noticed how her dear little hands were becoming calloused.
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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
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The skin on my buttocks now seems permanently calloused.
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In these circumstances, a man with highly calloused palms can make quite a good living.
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By the fall, the keratin layer of skin has become thicker and more calloused in response to the skin's over-exposure to harmful ultra-violet rays from the hot sun of summer.
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He gripped her fingers against his calloused palm and led her forward.
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His hands were rough and calloused, from years of karate practice.
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His hands were rough and calloused, from years of karate practice.
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Maybe Richard Cohen's only problem is that he gently cries himself to sleep at night, his uncalloused, lily-white hands self-consciously stroking his beard, waiting for an anthrax letter that never comes.
Dan Sweeney: Richard Cohen: Squealing Porcine Quisling, or just Gone Native?
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The ardour of the pilgrims, an old couple, is attested by their stiff limbs and the man's calloused bare feet as they kneel before the apparition of the Madonna at the door of the shrine.
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She held it up in front of her, enjoying the whisper of silk against her calloused skin.
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They are a company of celibates, grinding harshly against one another and growing daily more calloused from the grinding.
Chapter 14
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His skin was rough and calloused, and it made the nerves under her skin shudder to feel the texture.
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Underneath the hardened, calloused hands and slightly sunburnt nose, there was a hint of elegance.
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She held it up in front of her, enjoying the whisper of silk against her calloused skin.
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With scarred, calloused skin, he was much more frightening than Diego could ever hope to be.
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He ran a calloused finger around the rim of his glass.
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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.
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She took his rough, calloused hands in her own soft, slender ones and told him the only thing she wanted was for him to return safely.
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Grizzled old-timers of Forty Mile and Circle City, sour doughs with leathern jaws and bean-calloused stomachs, called up dream memories of chickens and green things at mention of his name.
THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
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Well, I'm feeling like I know this Mark/not-Mark guy that I just frenched and I'm definitely not — he's grabbing my head between his hands again, goddamn he's got big hands, big, hulking, somewhat calloused hands and this is not what I thought it'd be like — kissing Mark.
Make up
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‘It was damp, dingy and horrible so it's had a complete overhaul,’ she said, demonstrating her calloused hands after a pre-launch all-nighter to finish the decoration.
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The Frenchman took one of Lawford's hands and mutely inspected the soft uncalloused fingers.
Sharpe's Tiger
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The rustic mechanic looked no different from his city counterparts; grease splattered clothes and calloused palms.
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The Sister turned and came back to her, taking her by the shoulder in a large, calloused hand and speaking softly.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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I felt his calloused fingertips brush against my open palm.
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She grunted, muffling a curse that was gliding its way up her throat, and pulled her head away from the tree's calloused touch.
The Fugitive Waits
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The pounding starts at dawn, when the men with the calloused hands crawl by the hundreds, antlike, over and into the ruins of this broken city, from the toppled old market-houses on the Grand Rue to the humbled schoolhouses of the central city, from the shattered shacks along the waterfront to the crumpled mansions up the hill.
In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets
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Warden, the young wife of John Van Warden, clad in rags, with marred and scarred and toil-calloused hands, bending over the campfire and doing scullion work-she, Vesta, who had been born to the purple to greatest baronage of wealth the world has ever known.
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Gilbart was still very strong and tough - the bulging muscles and calloused hands proved this.
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I remember working on a downtown construction site as temp labor, and I'd watch all the soft office workers with their uncalloused hands come out for lunch, and I'd wonder why they got paid two or three times what I did for work that was so much easier (and which, of course, I could do, even if I didn't have a BA.)
Ian Welsh: The Personal Politics of Hopelessness
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His rough, calloused fingers made her skin tingle.
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The rustic mechanic looked no different from his city counterparts; grease splattered clothes and calloused palms.
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calloused skin
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I chopped some kindling for him, until the uncalloused skin on my hands protested this rough usage.
Renegade's Magic
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Cole, a small, dark-haired Cajun boy with calloused work-toughened hands, once took fifteen whacks from Miss Miller's paddle, more than anybody in the history of the school.
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His skin was rough and calloused, but his face was flawless.
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Just one of those stories that reminds us of how calloused and insensitive the Republican base can actually be.
Franken's first goal: Dogs for vets
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It was when she shook hands with him and lacerated her tender skin in the fisty grip of his rope-calloused palms.
CHAPTER V
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She looked down and saw that the hand on the edge of the blanket was calloused, and scarred blue-black.
THE WHITE DOVE
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She took his rough, calloused hands in her own soft, slender ones and told him the only thing she wanted was for him to return safely.
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His skin was rough and calloused, and it made the nerves under her skin shudder to feel the texture.
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His was a big, strong hand, roughly calloused from fieldwork.
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Sure thing, go right ahead and make it a three strikes felony, that's what they deserve ... but, realistically, I'm not sure it would have much of a deterrent effect to a calloused lawbreaker.
How Do You Stop A Serial Poacher?
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If they're calloused, does she pumice them and slather them in lotion to make them soft and resilient again?
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He shook it formally, his calloused palms rough against her delicate skin but his grip surprisingly gentle.
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Yeah, the idealist is still alive, somewhere deep under this calloused skin.
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With a start, Luke also noticed the Princess 'hands: soft, pale, uncalloused, clearly the hands of anyone but a manual worker.
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye
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There's virtue to such curiosity and research, but it could also leave an exhausted writer holding an emotionally bankrupt manuscript in calloused hands.
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With scarred, calloused skin, he was much more frightening than Diego could ever hope to be.
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The GOP are calloused, cold hearted/blooded, and cruel.
King: Uninsured 23-year-old battles leukemia, medical bills
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She looked down and saw that the hand on the edge of the blanket was calloused, and scarred blue-black.
THE WHITE DOVE
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He shook it formally, his calloused palms rough against her delicate skin but his grip surprisingly gentle.
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His dark deep-set eyes were lost in thought and he traced a large, calloused finger along the straight edge of his jaw.
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In this video, the problem is sitting across from Colbert, Rodriguez and Moreschi, in comfy leather chairs behind elevated wooden barricades in large temperature controlled rooms, wearing tailored suits and expensive jewelry and working smart phones with uncalloused hands while deliberating endlessly over the fate of people who are just trying to feed and clothe their families and give their children a little better life than the one they're having.
Mike Bonifer: Who's That Guy Behind Colbert?
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The ardour of the pilgrims, an old couple, is attested by their stiff limbs and the man's calloused bare feet as they kneel before the apparition of the Madonna at the door of the shrine.
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Svenson was not normally given to such arrogant posturing, but he felt sure that the two were not men of violence — that indeed, they were educated and accustomed to clean cuffs and uncalloused hands … rather like himself, actually.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
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My feet harbor the calloused soles of one has walked across beds of fire and the wrinkled flesh of one who had, for so long, too long, believed he could walk on water.
Went Sideways
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Once, this was a stout ship, with oak futtocks and floor timbers, fastened with iron nails, built with saw and adz and the calloused hands of shipwrights now long dead.
Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site
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A most practical and emotionally calloused Youth interrupted.
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My heroes were mountain men, who had calloused hands and knew how to handle an ax and a rifle.
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By the fall, the keratin layer of skin has become thicker and more calloused in response to the skin's over-exposure to harmful ultra-violet rays from the hot sun of summer.
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The skin on my buttocks now seems permanently calloused.
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The Sister turned and came back to her, taking her by the shoulder in a large, calloused hand and speaking softly.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Now he emulated the ease of their calloused old fingers, their sureness and strength, and most of all, their patience.
THE BROKEN GOD
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His skin was rough and calloused, but his face was flawless.
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Its floor is covered with a fine layer of chalk dust from the calloused palms of legions of lifters.
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In these circumstances, a man with highly calloused palms can make quite a good living.
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And now its kind of calloused and I learned that my pleasure is only at about 25\% of what it can be.
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I watch their uncalloused hands, hands not used to such tasks, skillfully wrapping the shape with twine, transforming what had been a violent an chaotic death into something more orderly, peaceful â something that the living could make sense of and that the dead may have ultimately wished for.
Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives
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Yeah, the idealist is still alive, somewhere deep under this calloused skin.
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He winks out of the corner of his eye at me and says, 'Your old daddy is tough isn't he?' and shows me the end of his thumb calloused and hard as the knurl of white oak; only fire could clean it to the original skin.
Confessions of Boyhood
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The most calloused trull would do it, given a fingerbreadth of encouragement, and other women took even less.
Conan The Unconquered
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It takes effort to refuse, and besides, there's always the danger that the refusal will be interpreted as a rebuff, a betrayal of religion, and a calloused disregard for people in need.
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The muscles in his forearms tapered into strong, tanned hands and calloused fingertips.
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Now he emulated the ease of their calloused old fingers, their sureness and strength, and most of all, their patience.
THE BROKEN GOD
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His rough, calloused fingers made her skin tingle.
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`You'm trapped here," he said, uncapping the Thermos with calloused hands.
THE BOOK LADY
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In this video, the problem is sitting across from Colbert, Rodriguez and Moreschi, in comfy leather chairs behind elevated wooden barricades in large temperature controlled rooms, wearing tailored suits and expensive jewelry and working smart phones with uncalloused hands while deliberating endlessly over the fate of people who are just trying to feed and clothe their families and give their children a little better life than the one they're having.
Mike Bonifer: Who's That Guy Behind Colbert?
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Aby will not have to shame himself to come back to his old home," she rejoiced, clapping her hands – hands blistered from the paintbrush and calloused from rough toil.
Hungry Hearts
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They picked at their calloused feet and scraped their teeth with matchsticks.
