How to Use skin-deep in a Sentence

skin-deep

adjective

• The 2024 Hyundai Elantra's changes are mostly skin-deep.
  — Car and Driver, 19 Apr. 2023
• At the same time, her colors shift the focus away from skin-deep assumptions and toward the interior lives of her subjects.
  — Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• The skin-deep son not only is supposed to restore the family’s honor but also serves as a good-luck charm for the parents to conceive a male child in the future.
  — Nadia Hashimi, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2015
• Beast mode The Trailblazer's beast-like appearance is more than skin-deep—at over 23 kg (50 lbs), looks are not entirely deceiving.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024
• Little touches like these marry the hotel group’s Asian roots to London thoughtfully and beautifully, but beauty here is more than just skin-deep.
  — Laura Ratliff, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2024
• But while he's highly regarded as an innovative force in music, Pharrell, 51, is also well known for something more skin-deep: remaining eternally youthful.
  — Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
• Her frugal philosophy is more than just skin-deep.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
• Consumers are realizing that beauty isn’t skin-deep.
  — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025