Usage examples of "à peau sombre" in French with translation to English

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Il faisait très sombre. It was very dark.
L'hamamélis de Virginie resserre les pores sans dessécher la peau. Witch hazel tightens pores without drying skin.
C'était une nuit sombre et tempétueuse. It was a dark and stormy night.
Le soleil a bronzé sa peau. The sun has bronzed her skin.
En dehors d'un chien, un livre est le meilleur ami de l'homme. Au dedans d'un chien, il fait trop sombre pour lire. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
La beauté n'a que l'épaisseur de la peau. Beauty is only skin deep.
Il fait sombre dans cette pièce. It is dark in that room.
Il a glissé sur une peau de banane. He slipped on a banana peel.
Je rentrais à la maison depuis un endroit au bout du monde, à environ trois heures d'un sombre matin d'hiver, et mon chemin conduisait à travers une partie de la ville où il n'y avait littéralement rien à voir que des lampes. I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps.
"Le sorcier se déguise en bête, il met une peau sur sa tête et il se promène dans le bourg. C'est mon papa qui me l'a dit." "The sorcerer disguises himself as a beast, he wears a hide over his head and walks around town. It's my daddy who told me that."
Tu dois revenir avant qu'il fasse sombre. You must come back before it gets dark.
Les vêtements mouillés collent à la peau. Wet clothes adhere to the skin.
Il faisait sombre sous le pont. It was dark under the bridge.
Elle a le teint clair alors que son frère a la peau foncée. She's got a fair complexion while her brother is very dark.
Ce n'est pas bon de lire dans une pièce sombre. It's not good to read in a dark room.
Assise dans son fauteuil en peau de panthère, la jeune femme en lingerie rouge lisait à haute voix un livre intitulé « La princesse noire ». Sitting in her panther hide chair, the young woman, clad in red lingerie, was reading aloud a book titled "The Black Princess".
Il fait sombre là-dedans. As-tu une lampe torche ? It's dark in here. Do you have a flashlight?
J'ai eu une allergie de la peau à cause des produits cosmétiques. I got a rash from cosmetics.
Plutôt que des hommes insouciants et joyeux, je suis attirée par des hommes posés avec quelque chose d'un côté sombre. Rather than light-hearted and cheerful men, I'm attracted to sober men with a bit of a dark side to them.
Sa peau est douce. Her skin is smooth.
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