How to Use skin-deep in a Sentence

skin-deep

adjective
  • The 2024 Hyundai Elantra's changes are mostly skin-deep.
    Car and Driver, 19 Apr. 2023
  • At the same time, her colors shift the focus away from skin-deep assumptions and toward the interior lives of her subjects.
    Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • The skin-deep son not only is supposed to restore the family’s honor but also serves as a good-luck charm for the parents to conceive a male child in the future.
    Nadia Hashimi, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2015
  • Beast mode The Trailblazer's beast-like appearance is more than skin-deep—at over 23 kg (50 lbs), looks are not entirely deceiving.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Ultimately, Shell’s observations about the beauty industry are only skin-deep.
    Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2024
  • In this regard, Mody offers little sympathy for India’s secular politicians, whose commitment to liberal ideals was, in his view, skin-deep and who pandered to religious interests in the name of political expediency.
    Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2023

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