light-skinned
Example Sentences
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Clare and Irene, the two main characters in this electric novella, are both black but light-skinned.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
“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
Morton’s privileged but stifling youth in a wealthy, light-skinned New Orleans family is sketched in a series of numbers that efficiently establish the expectations of the Creole class and his rebellions against it.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024
The video shows Mr. Mathurin getting in the face of a shorter, light-skinned man who was standing by the apartment complex’s stairwell.
From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2023
He was so light-skinned that people often assumed he was mixed, and he acted younger than he was—hyphy, as they say in Oakland.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
