How to Use dark-skinned in a Sentence

dark-skinned

adjective
  • That dark-skinned Cruzan boy came to the mean streets of Brooklyn and made a good life!
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Many of them are dark-skinned and have lived less privileged lives.
    Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • This dark-skinned woman was mother to a pale-skinned child, often seen strapped to her body.
    Time, 6 July 2023
  • This certainly marked a change in tide for many dark-skinned Black women.
    Essence, 23 Oct. 2023
  • So, women who were dark-skinned, women whose hair was not blonde and straight, women who were fat?
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • My celebration of dark skin can be seen in the use of dark-skinned models and in the highlighting of their skin.
    Condé Nast, Vogue, 21 June 2023
  • Whereas Agatha is dark-skinned, about to lose her title, and unmarried with four kids.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 May 2023
  • The silent video of a skinny dark-skinned boy appears to reveal a singular player gliding through packs of mere mortals with the ball glued to his feet.
    Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • But then there's this dark-skinned girl with this health condition coming from the hood of New Haven, just trying to be as friendly as possible and fit in.
    Julia Craven, SELF, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Following the speech, groups of Tunisian men attacked dark-skinned migrants, assaulting some and chasing many from their homes.
    Chao Deng, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2023
  • However, despite the film’s acclaim, Scott’s casting in the film about a dark-skinned princess living in the Middle East drew criticism.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Many who have studied Kahanamoku believe Hollywood then was not ready for a dark-skinned leading man.
    Les Carpenter, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • Beautiful dark-skinned Lupita Nyong’o has the misfortune of personifying the guilt of the new racists.
    Armond White, National Review, 10 July 2024
  • Families have been split up due to the too few appointments being offered each day, and the app also fails to recognize dark-skinned people.
    The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • In the United States, Meghan was able to evade some of the discrimination commonly directed to dark-skinned Black people.
    Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The experiences of dark-skinned people are so vast beyond the beauty industry.
    L'oréal Blackett, refinery29.com, 11 June 2024
  • Wang wanted to explore class and colorism, so another of the novel’s white characters, Hilary Starr, became dark-skinned and Southeast Asian.
    Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
  • This work is inspired and titled after the roadside restaurant Mammy’s Cupboard, built in the 1940s as an architectural sculpture of a dark-skinned serving woman in a full hoop skirt.
    Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
  • This book underscores this through a low-stress lesson on diversity as seen on the streets of London with a visibly dark-skinned Latina main character.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Just watching you, another beautiful dark-skinned woman, killing it.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Despite the fact that slaves were given very little to eat and were often worked into early graves, the notion of the large, middle-aged, dark-skinned Black woman who loved her owners more than life itself became cherished.
    Elizabeth Blackwell, Longreads, 2 Mar. 2023
  • And Northwestern’s recent study highlights the health disparities for nonwhite, dark-skinned people.
    Char Adams, NBC News, 14 July 2023
  • Hispanics and Asians share epidemiological features with both dark-skinned people and Caucasians, and therefore should take steps to limit UV damage.
    Keyvan Nouri, M.d., Jessica Cervantes and John Tsatalis, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • As a dark-skinned woman of color, I have personally been drawn to maximalist fashion because the colors and shades complement my skin tone beautifully.
    Essence, 31 May 2024
  • The attacks were a gift to peddlers of xenophobia, white supremacism, and Christian nationalism: as dark-skinned Muslim foreigners bent on murdering Americans, al Qaeda terrorists and their ilk seemed to have stepped out of a far-right fever dream.
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Two thin subplots are extraneous, including one that saddles Battiste’s homeland security officer, the only dark-skinned person onstage, with trauma that evokes little more than a loose end.
    Naveen Kumar, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023

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