SCALY in a Sentence

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The wooden floors of both rooms were bare; the furniture was brown and scaly.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCALY
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scaly
 a.  having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles
 a.  rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
Classic Sentence:
1  The wooden floors of both rooms were bare; the furniture was brown and scaly.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  As I went along the road back to the bridge, I kept picking off little pieces of scaly chalk from the dried water gullies, and breaking them up in my hands.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
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