Sentence examples for a light complexion from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a light complexion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone with a pale or fair skin tone.
Example: "She has a light complexion that makes her look radiant in bright colors."
Alternatives: "fair skin" or "pale complexion".

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She has honey-blond hair, green eyes, and a light complexion, and is five feet three.

"They are rather of a dark than of a light complexion," he wrote, adding that "courage and laborious enterprise are not naturally in them".

"Children With Doll," from 1942, shows two young black children flanking a doll with a light complexion and a blank stare.

The image shows a thin man with dark, shaggy hair and a light complexion, wearing black-rimmed glasses and wristbands on both arms.

Lieutenant Powers described the rapist as a black man, between 22 and 30 years old, 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds, with a light complexion and four earrings in his left ear.

Many people in Thailand — and throughout Asia and other regions — take rigorous precautions to protect their skin from the sun, preferring a light complexion that has historically indicated that one doesn't labor outdoors.

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She's usually dark complexioned but sometimes a lighter complexion and very rarely fair-skinned.

He saw he had a lighter complexion and wondered why.

I'm five-foot-seven, a size 12, and of a lighter complexion.

I'm five-foot-seven, a size 12, of a lighter complexion.

"She has big cheeks, a lighter complexion than Kanye, but closer to Kanye's color than Kim's.

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