blanched
Example Sentences
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Stan Winborne, superintendent of Granville County Public Schools in North Carolina, blanched to find YouTube was a top-accessed site in an audit he commissioned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
To prepare the samples, potatoes were rinsed, peeled, cut into strips, blanched, and salted.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2026
At first, Hallow didn't seem so bad, even though I blanched when it immediately gamified the spiritual experience by congratulating me for maintaining my "streak" of daily usage.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
Frank Rich, writing in the New York Times, praised “Grownups” as Feiffer’s “most moving and provocative work” but blanched at its painful content.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025
I kept waiting for Mother to snap back to her old Everything Is Just Fine attitude, but she stayed blanched out and kind of stopped breathing.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
