light-toned
Example Sentences
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He got his nickname when he was young, a reference to his light-toned skin.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023
“The Lovers” is a romantic comedy of the sort that they used to make, a light-toned but earnest love story with a solidly built framework to govern the action with a nearly architectural precision.
From The New Yorker • May 3, 2017
Huge patches of light and dark coloration mottle Pluto's surface; most prominent among them is a giant light-toned region that resembles a heart.
From Nature • Jul. 14, 2015
X-rays are slightly impeded by soft tissues, which show up as gray on the X-ray plate, whereas hard tissues, such as bone, largely block the rays, producing a light-toned “shadow.”
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
This seeming indifference—his light-toned attitude in the face of most serious affairs would have made a failure of him in many things.
From Flower of the North A Modern Romance by Curwood, James Oliver
