light-skinned
Example Sentences
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The videos show a light-skinned man wearing dark clothing, a medical mask, beanie, and at times gloves and a cross-body bag.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
Officers are searching for the suspect who is described as “a light-skinned male, 20-30 years old wearing all black clothing.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 29, 2024
Morton’s privileged but stifling youth in a wealthy, light-skinned New Orleans family is sketched in a series of numbers that efficiently establish the expectations of the Creole class and his rebellions against it.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024
The video shows Mr. Mathurin getting in the face of a shorter, light-skinned man who was standing by the apartment complex’s stairwell.
From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2023
When we moved from 140th Street to a bigger place on Lenox, it was the light-skinned renters who tried to keep us out.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
