SKIN in a Sentence

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The skin of his pink fat face hung down in loose folds like the dewlaps of a bulldog and his long white hair was indescribably dirty.

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 Meanings and Examples of SKIN
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skin
 n.  natural outer covering of an animal or human body
Classic Sentence: (207 in 14 pages)
1  The blood rushed to his thin skin under the sting of Hale's astonishment.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The red color of her skin, narrow high forehead, prominent cheek bones and the hawk-bridged nose which flattened at the end above thick negro lips, all showed the mixture of two races.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  The black bombazine, with its puffed sleeves and princess lace collar, set off her white skin superbly, but it did make her look a trifle elderly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  Her gray organdie dress, with its cherry-colored satin sash, disguised with its billows and ruffles how childishly undeveloped her body was, and the yellow hat with long cherry streamers made her creamy skin glow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  She felt that she could claw Melanie's ivory skin till the blood ran and take pleasure in doing it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  They not only admired her extravagantly, her high-spiritedness, her figure, her tiny hands and feet, her white skin, but they said so frequently, petting, hugging and kissing her to emphasize their loving words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  Her spirits rose, as always at the sight of her white skin and slanting green eyes, and she smiled to bring out her dimples.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  In his eyes, there was a fagged, haunted look, and the sunburned skin was tight across the fine bones of his face--her same handsome Ashley, yet so very different.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  Suspense, worry, sorrow, hunger and the torment of rising, falling, rising hope was wearing that skin thin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  The skin of his pink fat face hung down in loose folds like the dewlaps of a bulldog and his long white hair was indescribably dirty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  He kissed her palm again, and again the skin on the back of her neck crawled excitingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  She had never in her life been out in the sunshine without a hat or veils, never handled reins without gloves to protect the white skin of her dimpled hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  The high cheek bones were more prominent, the hawk-bridged nose was sharper and her copper skin gleamed with a brighter hue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Melanie's thin hand was at her throat, clutching it as if it was torn with pain, and Scarlett could see the veins beneath the white skin throbbing swiftly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
Example Sentence: (146 in 10 pages)
16  Her skin was as white as snow.
17  Many people offered to donate blood and skin for the badly burnt worker.
18  Sell the bear's skin before one has caught the bear.
19  Do not sell the bear's skin before you have caught the bear.
20  Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
21  As soon goes the young lamb's skin to the market as the old ewe's.
22  She had thick black hair and smooth dark skin.
23  Her body bloated and puffed up till pain seemed to burst out through her skin.
24  The nurse pierced the skin of the boy with a lancet.
25  If you keep scratching away at that spot, you'll break the skin.
26  Prolonged exposure to the sun can cause skin cancer.
27  There is a direct correlation between exposure to sun and skin cancer.
28  There is convincing evidence of a link between exposure to sun and skin cancer.
29  Dark-skinned people rarely develop skin cancer.
30  People with fair skin who sunburn easily are very prone to develop skin cancer.