tanned

Example Sentences

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The victim described the attacker to police as "white, olive skinned and tanned", a "muscular build" and "a shiny, hairless chest", Price said.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Within minutes of the announcement, memories of the elegant and tanned designer began to flood social media.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

"Health is so much more important than being so tanned for some Instagram pics," she said.

From BBC • May 16, 2025

Country club members, almost all white and middle-aged and tanned, looked on quizzically from poolside lounge chairs.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

On the shelves were the books bound in a cardboard-like material, pale, like tanned human skin, and the manuscripts were intact.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez