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How to use skinned in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective

Skinned means having skin. Example: “My skinned knuckles hurt until the scrape healed.”

Examples of skinned by meaning

adjectiveHaving a specific type of skin.

  • Sometimes called Chinese gooseberries, these brown fuzzy-skinned fruits will be soft to the touch, like an avocado, when ripe.1969, “Guide to Buying Fruit”, in “Buying, Storing, and Preparing”, in Better Homes and Gardens Salad Book, New York, N.Y.; Des Moines...

adjectiveHaving skin (or similar outer layer) totally or partially removed.

  • My skinned knuckles hurt until the scrape healed.

More sentences with skinned

  • Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell.From the entry knee
  • He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.From the entry skin
  • In plain view of the entire party, Douggie and his buddies skinned up and started getting high.From the entry skin up
  • She has this healthy glow, almost like she's golden skinned, but oh so jambu lah!2007 August 27, http://her-whimsical-escapade.blogspot.sg. From the entry jambu
  • He took them down, skinned them, gutted them, and brought them back to the camp.2003, Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, 2nd edition, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry silflay
  • "I looked at this moon-faced, smooth skinned, slimy fraud, with his patronising smile."1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 83. From the entry slimy
  • The birds were then dewinged, debeaked, and skinned for tissue sample removal.1974, Russell F. Reidinger, Jr. and D. Glen Crabtree, “Organochlorine Residues in Golden Eagles, United States—March 1964-July 1971”, in…. From the entry dewing
  • She was very dark skinned and has a voluptuous figure that she showed off with her stylish purple dress.2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 35. From the entry voluptuous
  • Arshavin skinned the youngster at the first opportunity and crossed for Bendtner, who could not direct his close-range effort on target.2011 January 30, Kevin Darlng, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield”, in BBC. From the entry skin
  • Dark skinned as he was, he was most likely to be slighted and thrown out by that gori mem.2010, Govinda Miśra, translated by Masooma Ali, The House with Five Courtyards, Penguin, page 211. From the entry gori mem
  • They carried the dripping scalps of his companions, and one had skinned off Baptiste's black beard as well, for a trophy.1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, A Man Called Horse; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 171. From the entry scalp
  • “I skinned my fingie,” said Caitlin.2016, Nicholson Baker, “Day Four: Your Brain Looks Infected”, in Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids, New York, N.Y.: Blue…. From the entry fingie
  • The Rolands, both U.S.-educated lawyers with faculty positions in the national law school, are olive skinned, with the coloring of some Italians or Sephardic Jews.1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" — A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume…. From the entry coloring
  • I know that the majority of us who are dark skinned and living on this reservation are not in favor of it.1964, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Hearings, page 227. From the entry darkskin
  • A neighborhoodful of farmers would rave for ten years about how the grain-buyers skinned them; and they would be perfectly right; they were being skinned.1914, Judson C. Welliver, “Co-operation is Not “Big Business””, in Farm and Fireside, volume XXXVII, Springfield, Ohio: The Crowell…. From the entry neighborhoodful
  • Fresh broad beans are used when in season, the young beans added to tagines with the skin on; when more mature, the beans are blanched and skinned before cooking.2005, Tess Mallos, “Broad Bean Dip”, in Cooking Moroccan, Millers Point, N.S.W.: Murdoch Books, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry tajine

Meaning of skinned

  1. adjective Having skin.
  2. adjective Having a specific type of skin.
  3. adjective Covered in a thin membrane resembling skin.

Full definition of skinned

Questions about skinned in a sentence

How do you use skinned in a sentence?
Skinned is used as an adjective. For example: “My skinned knuckles hurt until the scrape healed.”
What is a short sentence with skinned?
““I skinned my fingie,” said Caitlin.”
What does skinned mean?
Skinned means having skin.

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