swarthy
Example Sentences
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"He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard, and Harry noticed, very long fingers and feet," it says.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2022
Some in my father’s swarthy family liked to claim descent from Spanish Jews who fled the Inquisition to Poland — perhaps there was a reason for my affinity for Mediterranean food!
From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2020
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
The cheeks were swarthy with a permanent shadow, his thick brows joined in the center.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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