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:

  • When I was a lad, the word nigger was taboo in the US, but it was used freely till recently in Britain (meaning `any dark-skinned person'): the word Negro (with a capital N ) was carefully used instead.

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

  • Black , used by Americans, refers to Negroes; but (colonial) Britons have used it to refer to any dark-skinned people, particularly southeast Asians.

  • It was a victory for the dark-skinned, dirt poor masses against the hincty Negroes who had historically looked down on them.


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