pale-faced
Example Sentences
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Twenty minutes later, he came back pale-faced and hyperventilating; he even had to put his head between his knees to keep from passing out.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2021
Cinematographer Tak Fujimoto directed me and a dozen other black-haired, pale-faced actresses to line up before a camera during the interview.
From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2020
"We have nothing to say. Everybody has seen what has happened," says one man, pale-faced and teary-eyed.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2017
Krikalev, a pale-faced cosmic parachutist smiling like a newborn babe.
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2015
Lady Dustin sat with him, pale-faced and severe; an iron horsehead brooch clasped Roger Ryswell’s cloak; Aenys Frey stood near the fire, pinched cheeks flushed with cold.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
