dark-skinned
Example Sentences
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Block is a tall, dark-skinned Black man with locs and striking, expressive eyes.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
The choice of casting raised eyebrows because Robbie, at 35, is older than Catherine Earnshaw, who is a teenager in the book; while Heathcliff is described by Brontë as being "dark-skinned".
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
“Blood Knot,” the breakthrough play in which he found his voice as a dramatist, is about two brothers from the same mother, one dark-skinned, the other light-skinned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame,” a young Langston Hughes proclaimed in an essay nearly 100 years ago.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
A few people file in—two Candor with guns; a dark-skinned, older Candor man; a Dauntless woman I don’t recognize.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
