grow pale

Example Sentences

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Some of my friends complain about being small but when I ask if they’d like to look like me they grow pale and quiet, embarrassed.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2000

If you do it too often, you grow pale and weak and ill.

From National Geographic

Toward evening they grow pale and cough until a powerful potion brings speedy relief.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eastern rivalries grow pale beside the gargantuan wars of colleges that lie behind the Rocky Mountains.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the East, which had remained unclouded, the sky was beginning to grow pale.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien