swarthy

Example Sentences

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"You miss Russell Crowe, but Mescal is always watchable, with a stocky, swarthy, brooding presence," he added in the four-star review.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2024

In his Panama hat, his salmon three-piece suit, with his thick mustache, his swarthy olive skin, he looked like one of those national-costume dolls our island tías kept in a cabinet.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2018

Butterworth, who has three brothers and considers Mendes his fourth, is a sort of Mendes Maxi-Me: the same salt-and-pepper beard, the same swarthy skin, the same tonsorial style, but not the same metabolism.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018

“Belushi’s looks are ideal for the role: at once swarthy and cherubic, he suggests a baby sunk in dissipation.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2018

They each had tawny curls and swarthy skin.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine