Rubbing-off Sentence Examples

The summer pruning of established wall or espalier-rail trees consists chiefly in the timely displacing, shortening back, or rubbing off of the superfluous shoots, so that the winter pruning, in horizontal training, is little more than adjusting the leading shoots and thinning out the spurs, which should be kept close to the wall and allowed to retain but two or at most three buds.

Yet the fact that the long, soft Conchoderma auritum stands exposed on the Coronula, sometimes ten on one, indicates that the whale can have little chance of evicting its tenants, even at the expense of rubbing off the eighteen flattened horns of its own skin embedded in cavities round the domed base of the Coronula shell.

Other companies, such as Brittany and Coggs of New Hampshire paint their tiles in layers, rubbing off the top layer of glaze from the relief portion of the tiles to allow the base layer to show through.

Not only does the primer fill in the crease of your eye, but it will also ensure your cat eyes last all day without rubbing off.

Meaning you don't have to worry about spots rubbing off while you are interacting with excited fans.

I'm sure most of us don't even realize how much of our dead skin gets sloughed off all day long, hairs and eyelashes drop off, and substances rubbing off the skin surface.

After all, you don't want your wardrobe to suffer, nor do you want the concealer rubbing off on your formal event dress.