How to Use skinned in a Sentence

skinned

adjective

• Six-four and fair-skinned, Layne has alert blue eyes and a gray beard.
  — Abby Aguirre, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• And all the Latinos that made it so far, a lot of them were all light-skinned.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022
• For me, as a dark-skinned Black woman, to be the face of a campaign like that...
  — Dianna Mazzone, Allure, 3 Aug. 2022
• Sprinkle with the skinned almonds and dot with the butter.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• It’s no small matter that Sunak is a brown-skinned man.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
• When shopping for beets, look for firm and smooth-skinned beets.
  — Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2023
• Was a skinned dog found near the students' house connected to the case?
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2022
• Scars of the 2011 debacle are just as fresh as those skinned knees in the outfield.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 24 May 2023
• At the rear of those thin-skinned skyscrapers comes a pack of motley buildings.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2021
• The friend is Clare Kendry, a light-skinned Black woman who for years has been living as White.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Nov. 2021
• But thin-skinned Trump is looking for your head on a platter.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 24 Nov. 2021
• Beets Simmer strained beet juice or boil fresh skinned beets.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2023
• The priest didn’t just pluck a brown-skinned baby from the pews every winter to play Jesus.
  — Taylor Harris, Time, 13 Dec. 2022
• This career is best avoided by the impatient or the thin-skinned.
  — Yec, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• Dozens of extras, all brown- and dark-skinned, congregated in the set’s main square.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• He was described as as dark-skinned with slight acne and a low haircut.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 28 Jan. 2022
• The Khashoggi murder fixed a view of the crown prince as brutish, thin-skinned, and psychopathic.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• Tips: Laser hair removal works best for light-skinned people with dark hair.
  — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
• And that’s something of a feat given that most of them are tall, blue-skinned Na’vi warriors with the eyes of mountain lions and the speed of gazelles.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
• He is known for being kind of, of abrasive and thin skinned and a little bit prickly.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 28 Feb. 2022
• For generations, the female archetype in the West was long hair, fair-skinned and with a slender physique.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• Yet in upscale parts of Mexico City, she is seen as dark-skinned.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• This cuts both bread and tomatoes, as well as other thin-skinned veggies.
  — Wini Moranville, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2021
• Georgia Jets: Wait 90 days for this red-skinned variety to grow.
  — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2023
• Old toms are best skinned, since that leathery skin is not nice to eat even after cooking for a long while.
  — Hank Shaw, Outside Online, 1 May 2022
• The beets, once cooked and skinned, are quartered or sliced and mixed in a bowl with garlic, olive oil, red wine vinegar and salt and pepper.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2023
• That’s not just limited to pale skinned people, too, Silk added.
  — Angus Chen and Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023
• Both Nephites and Lamanites (the two main groups in the book) were light-skinned and bearded, like a realistic painting out of France at the time.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
• But the person on whom pulse oximeters performed the worst was one of the lightest-skinned volunteers tested.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 16 Dec. 2022
• Miho Wase’ is also one of the earliest to ripen and produces abundant crops of sweet, thin-skinned fruit.
  — oregonlive, 13 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024