The cell-ships were starting to peel away from Enterprise one by one.
One approach is to peel your way through the thing, layer by layer.
"To get spare parts will take months, and until then we'll be peeling potatoes by hand."
She wondered whether he could be peeling her away, layer by layer.
And then, she told herself, we'll peel this hill layer by layer.
There, she peeled potatoes by day and hounded club owners by night, determined to land a singing job.
If we start peeling them off one by one, he'll do just about anything to protect what he's got left, won't he?
There were at least twelve banana peels on the floor by his bed, surrounding an empty milk bottle.
Using chopsticks, you peel back the slices one by one, to dip into the broth.
If you don't have a food mill, it's almost as easy to peel and seed the tomatoes by hand.