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
• Scars of the 2011 debacle are just as fresh as those skinned knees in the outfield.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], 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 | [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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• The $44 tins come with gold leaf inlays alongside meticulously skinned and de-boned sardines.
  — Michael Dobuski, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024