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
Eastern rivalries grow pale beside the gargantuan wars of colleges that lie behind the Rocky Mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
Toward evening they grow pale and cough until a powerful potion brings speedy relief.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elaine had done the ungraceful thing as usual Guenever, in similar circumstances, would have been sure to grow pale and interesting—but Elaine had only grown plump.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
