Example sentences for: dark-skinned

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

  • Citing a history of racism, including the historically well-documented Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Reid asks rhetorically whether genetics research will result in a “genetically modified” white upper class and a lower, dark-skinned “natural birth class”?

  • Then, at about the same time when colored was anathematized (despite the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has still not changed its name), black was legislated by that community of speakers to supplant Negro and colored, though I cannot recall any riders requiring a capital B . ( Cape Colored —or, more properly, Coloured —is retained in South Africa with a specific denotation of a “person of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry” [ RHD Unabridged ], in which one must read White for “European” and dark-skinned for “African or Malayan.”

  • In the movie's prologue, he can hardly contain his delight that his son is set to marry the daughter of the local chief inspector, a man whose revulsion for this dark-skinned taxi driver with his cheap camera is manifest in every frozen half-smile.

  • From blue-eyed and sometimes red-haired Kashmiris and the Chinese-Tibetans from Sikkim or Darjeeling, through all the shades of coffee of the heartland, right down to dark-skinned, often curly-haired, Dravidians from southern India, you soon realize there’s no such thing as a “typical” Indian.

  • Then, as the Stone Age came to an end, short, dark-skinned Iberians started to make their way from North Africa to the Spanish Peninsula.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast