How to Use skin-deep in a Sentence

skin-deep

adjective
  • The beauty of the island is not just skin-deep.
    — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The reformatting is more than skin-deep.
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Moreover, eczema can go beyond being a skin-deep problem.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Her frugal philosophy is more than just skin-deep.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Consumers are realizing that beauty isn’t skin-deep.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • More central than the gross-out factor is a wry statement of disability pride, a reminder that swagger needn’t be skin-deep.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • If Clooney’s self-reflection feels skin-deep, Baumbach seems to undergo a thornier reckoning.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The best Korean sunscreens are among our absolute favorite sunscreens, and the reasons are beyond skin-deep.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Anyone else is likely to emerge unharmed, if a little bewildered that these good-looking but skin-deep figures merited feature treatment.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Watch it for its skin-deep enticement, its powerful visual devices, but also its concealed malignancy.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Little touches like these marry the hotel group’s Asian roots to London thoughtfully and beautifully, but beauty here is more than just skin-deep.
    — Laura Ratliff, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Grounding, purifying, and nourishing treatments go way beyond skin-deep and really leave you feeling different.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • 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
  • However, the company’s ambitions extend far beyond skin-deep applications.
    — WWD, 14 Feb. 2025
  • There, Snow White finds new purpose and fortitude in not only her new friends but also in her journey to find her father after he is dumped by her horrible stepmother, who is only concerned with skin-deep beauty.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2025
  • But for those seeking therapies that are more than skin-deep, the nation has also become a destination for patients from India, Pakistan, neighboring Gulf countries, and beyond who are looking to live longer, better lives.
    — Lara Setrakian, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • In a beauty landscape increasingly shaped by conversations around inclusivity and self-confidence, beauty technology brand Ulike is expanding the conversation beyond skin-deep results.
    — Footwear News, 7 May 2026
  • Although this topical version doesn’t deliver the same intensely rejuvenating, literally skin-deep benefits as the injectable, the Rejuran Turnover Ampoule is a great, more affordable option for those who are needle-shy.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 11 Feb. 2025
  • As the smartphone market becomes more price-conscious during 2026, unique colors can be used to protect the air of luxury and exclusivity around the iPhone 18 Pro and offer Apple financial and strategic advantages beyond the skin-deep specification change.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026

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