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
• 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
• This oval, smooth-skinned pear is blander than the Bartlett, and firm enough to bake or poach.
  — Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2020
• Scars of the 2011 debacle are just as fresh as those skinned knees in the outfield.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 24 May 2023
• She was slightly built, light-skinned, with dark hair and eyes.
  — Manuel Jaén, National Geographic, 4 June 2020
• Three dark-skinned women getting to play leads all in the same movie.
  — Talia Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Apr. 2021
• Cool the skinned hazelnuts and then blitz them to a fine meal with the flour in a food processor.
  — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• At the rear of those thin-skinned skyscrapers comes a pack of motley buildings.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2021
• Dark-skinned women know the scourge of colorism all too well.
  — Fedora Abu, refinery29.com, 30 June 2020
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• She is depicted as dark-skinned, dressed in blue, head bent, and hands clasped in prayer.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 24 Dec. 2019
• The skinned knees, the bruised egos, the broken hearts are required by adulthood for entry.
  — Scott Craven, USA TODAY, 13 June 2018
• Because berries are fragile fruits that are thin-skinned, one bad berry can turn the whole bunch.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 9 July 2021
• In this case, the phenotype of the suspect shows a fair-skinned man with blue eyes tinged with green and sandy blond hair.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
• My great-grandmother was born at the turn-of-the-century and was very light-skinned.
  — Abrima Sims-Erwiah, refinery29.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• And despite being the only brown-skinned one there, Max did not feel like a fly in milk.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• This method follows the lead of thinner skinned English cucumbers, which are shrink-wrapped in plastic.
  — Susan Hall Mahon, Southern Living, 2 Feb. 2024
• The whole branzino arrived crispy skinned and topped with pink pickled ginger shoots, Tokyo turnip and celery leaf salad and a drizzle of lemon-chili vinaigrette.
  — The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Feb 2025