peel away/off

Examples of peeled

peeled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Fresh tubers can be peeled, chipped, dried and milled into -our.
The carcass was then turned over and a similar blubber blanket peeled from the back.
Some peeled off the wall in shreds, like remnants of old wheat-pasted posters from some long-past, lost political campaign.
Oranges and melons at the bottom of the image have been peeled, broken open or cut into slices.
Perhaps through the unfolding of the work, artefacts derived from acousmatic music aesthetics could be peeled away.
Suction was used to remove the vitreous; the sclera and retinal pigment epithelium were peeled away.
After the xylene had evaporated, the paper was peeled away, transferring the grid pattern onto the glass slide.
The process can be described as one of peeling an onion-layer after layer must be cautiously peeled away.
We have peeled away several layers of inhibition and ignorance but other layers remain.
After 4 min, papain-treated tissue was rinsed and the retina was manually peeled out of the eyecup, separating the retina from the pigment epithelium.
We peeled away the pulp to expose the hard endocarp, and discarded all seeds with insect holes or other damage, such as fungus infection.
The sclera and pigment epithelium were peeled away from the retina in order to isolate it.
The cloth was left until it dried, and was ready to be peeled off the board.
How can it be peeled, unfolded, exteriorized, without being destroyed?
The seeds were removed and, after the waxy aril was peeled off, were briefly surfacesterilized in 1% sodium hypochlorite.
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