dark-skinned
Example Sentences
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Mrs Brittle said she saw a tall, dark-skinned man sitting at a high table, wearing a silver top with the hood up.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025
One episode inverts the tired old scenario in which white explorers are threatened with death by dark-skinned natives; here, the captors are Nordic warrior women.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2025
Instead, in Francesca Sloane and Glover's spy thriller, the two leads are people of color — one a dark-skinned Black man and the other a half-Japanese woman – creating a different dynamic.
From Salon • Feb. 11, 2024
“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame,” a young Langston Hughes proclaimed in an essay nearly 100 years ago.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024
She was tall and dark-skinned and wore her hair in a messy side braid.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
