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
• But while he's highly regarded as an innovative force in music, Pharrell, 51, is also well known for something more skin-deep: remaining eternally youthful.
  — Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 12 Oct. 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