Example sentences for: complexion

How can you use “complexion” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Yet the writing of a review puts a different complexion on the use of a dictionary, and I have often remarked that the most useful, realistic reviews of such works can be written only after one has lived with the subject book for many months, using it all the while.

  • We can go further, imagining societies where status is conferred not by accidents of birth but by learning, or by physical strength, or by darkness of complexion.

  • Today, we can see Michael Jackson's ever more bleached complexion as a shorthand for pop's history: He's the first black singer to become his own white cover version--to start out as Little Richard and transmogrify into Pat Boone.

  • Asian-Americans, who so rarely appear in print or on television, can tell you that the media are no mirror of the nation's complexion.

  • (The girls of Hangzhou are still famous for their light, clear complexion, which is attributed to the mild, humid climate.)


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