Light Skinned

Word LIGHT SKINNED
Character 13
Hyphenation light-skinned
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The word "light-skinned" in example sentences

The department on Monday released video obtained from mall security they believe shows the suspect, who is described as a light-skinned black woman with a medium build and shoulder-length hair, wearing a white hat, a long-sleeve white hoodie with a purple shirt underneath, dark jeans and white shoes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The carjacker is described as a light-skinned black man, 5-foot-3, chubby, with short black hair. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He is described as a light-skinned African-American, about 5 feet tall and weighing about 85 pounds. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Robinson is described as a light-skinned, black female, 5-foot-3, who weighs 155 pounds and has dark hair. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The newspapers were never short of notices offering hefty rewards for capturing this or that nigra, many described as light-skinned, like her. ❋ Beverly Swerling (2007)

Reid is a light-skinned black man whose graying hair and mustache are smartly and meticulously groomed. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Critics are calling Senate majority leader Harry Reid racist for suggesting in 2008 that Obama was electable because he was 'light-skinned' and had 'no Negro dialect.' ❋ Ithiliana (2010)

I would guess that most tanning sessions are from light-skinned Americans. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But to her surprise, they accepted her two daughters because they were light-skinned and they rejected my siblings and me because we were dark-skinned. ❋ Maria Luisa Arredondo (2011)

Belle, though very light-skinned with green eyes, dropped “Marion” for “da Costa,” claiming a Portuguese ancestor should anyone question her racial make-up. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the gates of many vandalized homes in the country's only coastal city dominated by dark-skinned people, light-skinned rebels scrawled the words "slaves" and "negroes." ❋ Sam Dagher (2011)

Du Boisared only for the uplift of light-skinned, college-degreed blacks over their darker, less-educated brethren. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She had been slow-jogging for a little while when she noticed a "light-skinned Latino" man sitting on a curb wearing dark athletic shorts and no shirt. ❋ Keith L. Alexander (2010)

When he married Josephine Beall Willson of Philadelphia in 1878, they set Washington society – both black and white – ablaze, most noticeably because Josephine Bruce was very light-skinned, wealthy, very highly educated and beautiful. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Howard joked that McGee also has to represent for "light-skinned brothers." ❋ Unknown (2011)

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