How to Use skinned in a Sentence
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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 -
How could the man wearing black robes be so thin-skinned?
— Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com, 18 May 2021 -
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 | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 24 May 2023 -
Three dark-skinned women getting to play leads all in the same movie.
— Talia Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Apr. 2021 -
At the rear of those thin-skinned skyscrapers comes a pack of motley buildings.
— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2021 -
Corey Hawkins, who is Black, plays the role of Benny — the only dark-skinned actor in the main cast.
— Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 16 June 2021 -
What is the role of skin tone among the vanguard, knowing that so many at the forefront were lighter-skinned?
— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 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 | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 24 Nov. 2021 -
The models on the boxes and bottles are all light-skinned, many with blue eyes and blonde hair.
— Kang-Chun Cheng, Quartz, 11 Aug. 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 -
Because berries are fragile fruits that are thin-skinned, one bad berry can turn the whole bunch.
— Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 9 July 2021 -
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 | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 28 Jan. 2022 -
For me, being fair-skinned with freckles, someone that is a lover of the sun, someone that...
— Jihan Forbes, Allure, 12 July 2021 -
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 -
Eating a whole, thick-skinned samosa feels like dinner.
— Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021 -
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 -
My father migrated from India to the UK in the late ‘60s and met my bright-eyed, pale-skinned Welsh mother in the ‘80s.
— Yasmine Summan, refinery29.com, 15 July 2021 -
Rapp later poked fun at the moment on Instagram, posting a snapshot of herself with an unmistakable run in her pantyhose and a skinned knee.
— Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024 -
Melanoma, for example, is more common among lighter skinned people, while squamous is more common among those with darker complexions.
— Beth Sobol, Allure, 29 Nov. 2023
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