How to Use skinhead in a Sentence

skinhead

noun
  • Her best friend, a white girl, had a brother who became a skinhead.
    — Dawn Ennis, Forbes, 19 June 2021
  • Kevin James plays a neo-Nazi skinhead who runs afoul of, yep, a clever teen girl.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Warning, the story of a skinhead who falls in love with a gay leftist punk.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2022
  • He was first sentenced at the age of 18 for the murder of a skinhead.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The bottom half of me was almost like a skinhead — someone who could kick your head in.
    — Scott Meslow, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Neo-Nazis and skinheads threatened the goals of this coalition.
    — TIME, 7 May 2024
  • And that is what is why neo-Nazis, skinheads and Klansmen are not afraid to show their faces.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Martinez identified as a white power skinhead for most of her teens.
    — Kate Storey, Marie Claire, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Europe’s far right has sought to clean up its image, trading skinhead attire for suits.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The skinhead charged in the killing was also accused of trying to kill two Latino men.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • There were members of the Ku Klux Klan, skinheads and neo-Nazis.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Aug. 2017
  • In 1998, a carload of skinheads beat an Ethiopian man to death.
    — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
  • As his skinhead empire grew, so did interest from mainstream media.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The movie makes the point that the regulars at the Old Oak aren’t white-supremacist skinheads.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 May 2023
  • The police report identified him as a leader in the Hammerskins, a racist skinhead gang.
    — Chris Joyner, ajc, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Tensions rise further when Fus has a run-in with radical leftists who appear to be as violent as the skinheads.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In his memoir, Mr Manzoor describes the skinheads who menaced him on his way home and a pig’s head that appeared at the local mosque.
    — J.t., The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Patrick Stewart costars, playing against type as the ruthless leader of the film's villainous band of neo-Nazi skinheads.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
  • His character on Banshee is Kurt Bunker, a police deputy who was once a neo-nazi skinhead in another life.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The area around the fountain was known as a frequent meeting place for racist neo-Nazi factions of skinheads in the early 1990s.
    — Kent Faulk, AL.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • The Ku Klux Klan and the skinheads can get a permit to walk down the street to bash Jews, gays, blacks, immigrants, anybody.
    — Michael O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Skinheads, by and large, are low-information, low-IQ thugs driven by the thrill of violence and tribal hatred.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 19 Feb. 2017
  • Far-right militias, skinheads, white-boy fight clubs and almost every group The Root has been warning readers about showed up for the festivities.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 5 June 2017
  • Assessment of that money will be divided among the Metzgers and the two skinhead defendants, though the bulk will be paid by Tom Metzger.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
  • In the '80s, Oregon, and Portland, in particular, saw a jump in neo-Nazi and skinhead groups, Miller said.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant, was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat by a group of Portland skinheads in 1988.
    — Paul Vercammen and Holly Yan, CNN, 31 May 2017
  • Neo-Nazis, skinheads, Ku Klux Klan members other white supremacists made their way to the park at the same time as counter-protesters, and the two sides clashed.
    — Sarah Rankin, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The series finds an instructive case in one particular pastor, whose trajectory as a neo-Nazi skinhead turned vehement anti-racist makes for a compelling tale.
    — Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Combining tattoos and beards with the clean lines of khakis and Fred Perrys, the Proud Boys blended aspects of skinhead and punk style with a retrograde, preppy look.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2021
  • The film gave Gary Oldman his first breakthrough role as the unpredictable skinhead Coxy, who proves to have an influence over the impressionable Colin.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024

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