Example sentences for: light-skinned

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

  • Aside from that, he looked pretty average--average height, hair color, skin color (police said he was either a white guy or a light-skinned black guy).

  • Descended from light-skinned slaves who enjoyed a privileged position in the plantation hierarchy, the "black elite" continues to hoard access to its boarding schools, social events, and churches: "Why," asks one pedigreed lady, "would I be socializing with some caseworker or mailman who goes to NAACP events?"

  • In popular culture, literature, and the cinema, soldaderas have been portrayed as self-sacrificing women, usually mestizas (mixed-race women) from the lower classes, but La Adelita is often seen as a güera (light-skinned), “sweetheart of the troops, a woman who is valiant, pretty, and a wonderful helpmate to the soldier” (Salas 121).

  • Stories about him indicate that he was an earthly hero, a light-skinned man, who acted as the ruler of the Toltecs for some time.

  • They were tall, light-skinned, often blue-eyed and blond-haired.


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