How to Use dark-skinned in a Sentence

dark-skinned

adjective

• As classic as those films are, none of those leads are dark-skinned.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 30 Dec. 2024
• Many of them are dark-skinned and have lived less privileged lives.
  — Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• Growing up dark-skinned in the South wasn’t always easy.
  — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 29 Sep. 2025
• Leroy used both hues, slipping a dark-skinned retreat behind an off-white veil.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Mar. 2025
• The suspect is described as a dark-skinned male in his 20s with long hair.
  — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2024
• This dark-skinned woman was mother to a pale-skinned child, often seen strapped to her body.
  — Time, 6 July 2023
• That dark-skinned Cruzan boy came to the mean streets of Brooklyn and made a good life!
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 30 Apr. 2024
• The suspect is described by cops as dark-skinned and 5-foot-5 and was dressed in black.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
• The scene takes place in a Muslim court between a dark-skinned king and a light-skinned thief.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2026
• So, women who were dark-skinned, women whose hair was not blonde and straight, women who were fat?
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
• This certainly marked a change in tide for many dark-skinned Black women.
  — Essence, 23 Oct. 2023
• One, by the latter, showed two dark-skinned men sitting poolside in pink Speedos.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• Sometimes for a dark-skinned, Black woman with a wide nose and big lips, that’s all there was out there.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 Jan. 2025
• On the other side of the river lies my sandbank, where my dark-skinned sweetheart with the heron-beak nose sits.
  — Sanat Pai Raikar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Oct. 2026
• In other words, dark-skinned men will stand out dangerously in a sea of soldiers.
  — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
• Because sometimes for a dark-skinned Black woman with a wide nose and big lips, that's all there is out there.
  — Eric Andersson, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
• Whereas Agatha is dark-skinned, about to lose her title, and unmarried with four kids.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 May 2023
• Robert is a dark-skinned 17-year-old who plays soccer, is learning Spanish, and gets good grades.
  — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
• The defense also had a witness who described the shooter with the shotgun as bearded, stocky, and dark-skinned.
  — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Apr. 2026
• The second suspect was described as a dark-skinned Black male, about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, with a slim build.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
• Just watching you, another beautiful dark-skinned woman, killing it.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2023
• His mother was a dark-skinned granddaughter of Saint Ann’s enslaved whose peasant kin farmed dasheen and yams.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
• The gunman, described as a dark-skinned man with a green jacket, ran off and was last seen running south on Bushwick Ave.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2025
• Many who have studied Kahanamoku believe Hollywood then was not ready for a dark-skinned leading man.
  — Les Carpenter, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• The experiences of dark-skinned people are so vast beyond the beauty industry.
  — L'oréal Blackett, refinery29.com, 11 June 2024
• Following the speech, groups of Tunisian men attacked dark-skinned migrants, assaulting some and chasing many from their homes.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2023
• The app’s facial-recognition feature struggled to process the photos of dark-skinned asylum-seekers.
  — Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Nov. 2024
• Families have been split up due to the too few appointments being offered each day, and the app also fails to recognize dark-skinned people.
  — The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• Just watching you, another beautiful dark-skinned woman just killing it, that's my motivation.
  — Laura Lane, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
• Social media served up a daily video deluge of heavily armed agents randomly manhandling dark-skinned people.
  — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026