skintight
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of skintight
Example Sentences
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Only once he’s in a skintight ski suit does the 29-year-old from Norway begin to resemble his true identity: greatest winter Olympian of all time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
She wore a black skintight leather dress with red stitching and long latex gloves, as she strutted down the runway for the designers Vin + Omi's 20th anniversary show.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024
Her stunt of marching through Congress in a skintight "scarlet A" T-shirt only reinforced the narrative that her only goal is getting on camera.
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2023
The hosts were clad in matching white blouses, thick black-rimmed glasses, leather culottes and spacey skintight berets.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2023
My mother—all four feet eleven and a half inches and 217 pounds of her—patrols the streets of Brooklyn at night in a skintight uniform, clanging with enough antiriot gear to quash another Attica.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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