Example Sentences

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Another person posted about a missing person’s tattoos: “She has a flesh-colored crown on the right shoulder, a champagne glass on the left shoulder as well as 2 stars.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Some of Disney World’s Ariels wear fish tails and bikini tops, the purple seashells reinforced with flesh-colored mesh; others go to character dinners in full gowns.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

A longer version featured layers of diagonal ruffles, some left unfinished and trailing behind, worn with chunky flesh-colored booties with sculptural heels.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2021

At that moment, they see in the rubble the “gleaming, flesh-colored, plastic thigh and leg of a baby doll.”

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2018

Boggs wears a flesh-colored plastic mask from his upper lip to his brow — I was right about the broken nose—so his expression’s hard to read.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins