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
A knight, returning from the Crusades to plague-ridden Sweden, is visited by Death, a pale-faced, black-cloaked character.
From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2016
She was pale-faced with bags under her eyes.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
