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 | 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
  • 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 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
  • 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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